Except most people screaming about Cecil do not care about lions going extinct. They care about the death of one lion. Cecil is not the only endangered animal who has been hunted yet the only one people are willing to throw themselves off a bridge for.
BBM for focus. Do you have a source for this?
I posted upthread that I don't particularly care whether the dead lion in question was the celebrity Cecil (whom I had never even heard of it until now) or some other random lion.
I care because lions are endangered and this one was killed illegally, AFAIK lured out of his protected sanctuary, for no good reason except the guy wanted to and a large sum of money exchanged hands.
I kind of assumed others shared my view, that it wasn't about this particular lion specifically but about an endangered animal being killed just for someone's kicks and someone else's greed.
ETA: and the corollary that if this kind of outrage could happen to a celebrity lion, what kind of outrages are visited upon lions that we don't even know about.
Also I wanted to respond to another of your posts that has been deleted. In general I don't post about those other types of cases to which you were referring because I get so depressed by what other posters are saying. The same things that upset you, I'll wager.
That doesn't mean I'm not outraged by those cases--believe me, I am--but I think human nature leads most of us to post more on threads where we have allies than those where we feel we're futilely butting heads with the majority view.
I'm not pointing fingers at anyone here--having been on Websleuths a long time, I've been in both the majority and the minority camps. I'm continually amazed at how I can agree 100% with someone on one case and zero percent on another. I can name on one hand the members that I have agreed with on every single issue, at least as far as I recall.
But I'm getting away from my point.
Which is, I would ask you to please don't assume that if people seem to exhibit more passion over one outrage than over another, that they care less.
For my own part, I am grateful to be part of this community of people that CARE at all. Over any brutal, unjustified death of another living creature, human or not.
