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Helpless Predator

This photo, which appeared last year and accompanies reports that melting polar ice caps were literally stranding polar bears in the middle of the ocean, is moving.  I was disturbed for several minutes after looking at it.  I cannot look at it now without wincing.  Why? Polar bears are not nice animals.  They rip our arms off and eat them.  They regularly kill baby seals.  Isn't it a good thing for polar bears to die off?  It means more seals might live.  Yet just about everyone finds this picture moving. What can those of us who need to persuade others learn from this picture? Context is everything.  A polar bear is a predator - unrelenting and vicious, red in tooth and claw.  Yet we don't see that...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on July 30, 2008 (boomark / email).