Bill Watterson graphically murdered a dude in the funny pages and no one blinked an eye. Amazing.
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Haha this was always the most disturbing C&H strip I love it
I love how happy Calvin looks, lol.
And we kept going past 7 Billion, aiming for 8.
Calvin grew up to be Thanos.
I think if Calvin did, he would have been smart enough to not destroy the stones because you'd need to periodically snap again as reducing the population by a % once only turns back the clock and eventually you'll be back where you were before the snap. And if he had the stones, that attack on him wouldn't have stood a chance.
The deers shouldt get shot
They should just have more predators. Wolves and such. That eats the deer.
On my home island, some rich colonials decided that they needed something to hunt so they had deers brought in. Now they're everywhere, and hunting is very popular.
Humans are predators of deer. Though some of them are wasted, many aren't. Hunters (with their families and their communities) eat their venison for supper, sew their hides into clothes, and carve their bones into jewelry. Unfortunately, it is true that humans have crowded out many of the other predators of deer, like wolves, necessitating more human hunting to fill the gaps; thankfully there's been much effort towards fixing that mistake.
Have you seen a wild run down a kill a deer? Getting shot is far more peaceful.
That was his point, I assume. Way more awesome when a pack of wolves rips it apart.
The only problem I have with this funny comic is the poor comparison. Humans can actively plan, communicate, & alter our environment. Deer cannot. If their population booms (because we killed all their other predators... Oops) then we do need to fill in the gaps until conservation efforts can restore the other populations, such as wolves. That is our duty, to keep the ecosystem in balance. It's also respectful (In my opinion, at least) to the animals that we kill to at least let them serve a purpose, to feed & cloth us, to not waste their life.
Wait, so your saying humans actively plan and communicate about the impact we have on the environment? I mean in theory yes, but in reality, not really.
I didn't just mean regarding climate change specifically, but more broadly our ability to alter the world around us with technology & language. Take agriculture, as an example: We've domesticated countless crops to better suit our dietary needs, we can plan our crops to meet our populations' needs, even make population projections & plan our future farming accordingly. Not that we're always particularly good at it, we have plenty of issues not planning & coordinating enough, but we'd have starved ourselves of resources an awfully long time ago had it not been for our capacity for change. Deer can't do that. We can see that we've put their population in a position where they'd starve themselves without the predators, & the deer can't fix that themselves. They'll simply keep eating until there's no food left, & their population will collapse, alongside a large portion of the ecosystems they inhabit. It's our responsibility, now, to fix that. Both by filling the gaps of former predators by taking a larger role in hunting (ethically, of course, no need to maim the poor animals), & by restoring the populations of their former predators as best we can, something conservationists have had some success with for wolves here in North America.
we can, but effectively we don't
And we do this by flinging metallic lead all over the countryside.
Some people prefer arrows, so they can retrieve & reuse the bolts when they're done.
In Germany you are not allowed to use arrows. Because you can't ensure a swift death for the animal.
Humans is the only species that destroys their environment and then pretend to fix the problem by destroying more environment.
Maybe the point is that humans are not actively planning, communicating, and altering our environment in a positive way to be able to handle the population increase.
This was one of the first Calvin and Hobbes strips I ever read.
"We Need To Talk About Calvin"