Walter James Palmer of Eden Prairie, Minnesota recently made world news by allegedly killing a protected lion known as Cecil. This particular lion resided in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park, and was currently being used in an Oxford research program. Jimmy Kimmel, a late-night TV host has likened Palmer to Bill Cosby in a vitriolic rant saying the public's feelings were no different in both cases. If I was a woman, I would take offense that people's feelings are no different for a lion than me. The outcry is intensifying, and the alleged perpetrator is now receiving death threats according to some news sources. That makes me believe that these same people feel that a human life is no more valuable than an animal. I am in no way sanctioning hunting illegally, but the emotional response is what got me to thinking.
Our twisted perspective is no more evident than in cases
like this, and especially in the coverage by the media. I wonder why the outcry
is not intensifying over the killing of unborn children. They scream that
another male lion will destroy the cubs and this is not the death of one lion but
many. However, every time an unborn child is killed, the entire offspring of
that child will never be born, and their contribution will never be realized. Is there an intensifying anger concerning the harvesting of unborn baby organs and selling them like an auto parts store? I
wonder why there is no outcry intensifying over the brutality of women and
making them second-class citizens facing untold hardship in several nations in
a supposed civilized world. They cry out that it is brutally inhumane to make a
lion suffer supposedly for 40 hours, and yet these women can spend 40 years dying
an agonizing death in the name of religion and ideologies. It amazes me that we
can scream at the nightly news in outrage over a lion being killed and the
harpooning of a whale, but can drive by an abortion clinic and feel nothing.
Something wrong America!
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