crikey

persons in australia are killing stingrays out of supposed and implied revenge for Steve Irwin's death.

an example of how ludicrously entangled our world is.

what kind of person targets a stingray to take revenge? what is the imagined tight emotional connection between the perpetrator and the crocodile hunter?

perhaps, it is not persons, but crocodiles.

people are animals. yet we think of ourselves as different. the concept of humanity sets us humans apart. we have a conscious. and a sub and un. yet there seems to be a sliding scale of awareness of the humanity, or the presence of it. on one end of the spectrum there exists people who lack humanity, and are animal without the extra bits.

If you want to read a book that indirectly illustrates this, read Bryson's a Short History....I found it fascinating that the same dna that discovered physics also wrecks havoc on the environment, and routinely kill each other over resources since their time began. to think of humans as, well, less human, and more animal, is an interesting paradigm shift game to play.