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There was a time when the dog, left outside, was able to find shelter for the cold night. Ducks knew to fly south for the winter without a guy in an aero-light helping them to begin the journey. A time when a moose fell through the ice and was not saved because nature had selected him to die, but no longer folks. Now, they don’t die, they don’t get cold, and they don’t fight to eat, because the human animal has so much on his plate that he will drop everything to worry over a moose flailing in a frozen river.

People just do not get the guidelines of nature; animals too weak to survive winter die. We have put birth control on our side and kept nature at bay with all our messing with what was once a fairly balanced situation. We didn’t know how many large mouthed sharks there were in the world, because we were busy tending to our little humdrum existence and everything went about in a natural order. But wait, we discovered that man is the great savior of all things small and innocent.

Now rivers don’t drown moose, moose drown moose, or is that what happens? No, we won’t let the poor weak creature die, we send out rescue team after rescue team until we have dragged him, kicking and snarling, back to shore. People go so far as to rescue dead deer from parked cars, and eat one of the last remaining large mouthed sharks, and why? Because we can, that’s why.

We cannot rescue ourselves from a man in Washington threatening to sell our lives down the river. How dare we, we elected him, or at least someone did. We cannot stop banks from taking the life out of us while they suck up every dollar the government will give them, but damn…we can rescue deer and moose. It feels so much better to know that there are those among us who would vote the freedom right out of our hands, but they will save a moose from floundering, or a deer from suffocating in a parked car. And somewhere, we know that there is an agency readying itself to prosecute the men that ate the shark. Well, aren’t we special?

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