Semipermeable: Dear animal rights activists, →

disienai:

I understand where you are coming from, I love animals and seeing unesscary animal cruelty and inhumane treatment disturbes me. I am grateful that your movement has made progress in improving the treatment of animals in entertainment, in industry, in research, and prosecuted individuals harming…

I see your an environmentalist with no respect for individuals.

Animals (human or not) are not ours to use in any way. Capturing them in order to investigate how they live is invasive and damages the animals (they stress, for example). They may even risk death (like a rabbit having a heart attack because he/she has never being exposed to humans). If you want to understand how animals live don’t disrupt their tranquility and habitats.

About the second point, whoa, there’s so much to say.
I repeat: animals are individuals who deserve respect, and the sole fact that you suggest that the best way to “get rid” of non native animals is to murder them shows zero respect.
What’s the big difference between and iguana that gets to the Galapagos on their own means and getting there on a boat? Environments and ecosystems change, with or without human help. 
The “pet” species you refer to (dogs, cats, horses, pigs) should not be released on the wild, but, guess what? That’s not their fault. There are negligent humans who abandoned them, and they are to be punished, not the non humans. There are other ways to control their population (given the context that we are responsible for them), like the ones you listed (sterilization, etc).

These animals you have referred to are individuals with feelings, emotions, relationships and memories, and you are suggesting that we murder them so we can keep the pretty forrest. Would you say the same of the MOST INVASIVE SPECIES right now? No, I’m not talking about ants, I’m talking about humans. Should we just murder humans because they destroy the habitat? Theirs and the ones where other species live? No. Because your antropocentric and speciecist view on life tells you that they are individuals who deserve respect based on no other thing than their species. “Yeah, they’re human, they deserve to live”, with no other reason than that one. That’s arbitrary discrimination not much different than any other arbitrary form of discrimination, for example, racism or sexism (“Yeah, they’re white, they deserve to live” “Yeah, they’re men, they deserve to live”).

I would highly suggest you to check the way you view other animals, because they’re not an object that just happens to be a part of environment, they’re subjects.

You obviously do not care about animals as individuals, to please don’t say you do. 

(Quelle: yotey)