Reply #9: Please don't take this wrong

[Kali]

but of course you take the side of the Elephants. How could you not? The situation does not affect you in any way. It is so easy to watch nature documentaries and send in $20 to the WWF or some other save-the-animals (especially cool or cute mammals) charity. What if your food supply was being torn up every night? What if your child had been harmed or killed? What if the economic conditions you lived under prevented you from just picking up and moving somewhere else?

We sit in our luxurious resource-rich country, food basically just handed to us, no clue how or where it comes from, still taking from rest of the planet, and have the balls to dictate what some poor farmer in SE Asia or Africa or can or cannot do, no wonder we have lost so much respect around the world. Nevermind starting actual wars against countries we don't care for.