# 90 Tigers Found Dead At Calif. Home - Can I please have 5 minutes and a baseball bat

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**Created:** [April 24, 2003, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90-tigers-found-dead-at-calif-home-can-i-please-have-5-minutes-and-a-baseball-bat/170932 "2003-04-24T19:40:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/90-tigers-found-dead-at-calif-home-can-i-please-have-5-minutes-and-a-baseball-bat/170932/41 "2003-04-27T01:10:39Z")

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> \*Originally posted by the\_great\_dalmuti \*  
> \*\*Yep. Because those tiger’s lives are worth SO MUCH MORE than the lives of the cows and chickens you ate for lunch and dinner yesterday. That makes sense. \*\*

You forgot pigs, pheasants, ducks, snails, and every other creature that humans eat. But at least those deaths had a _purpose_ (i.e. giving life to someone/something else), whereas the deaths of the tigers in the OP’s link had _no purpose_ whatsoever. I’d be just as upset if someone let a herd of cattle starve to death because they were too lazy to go out and feed them. Did you mourn the death of the plants in the salad you ate the other day? After all, they were once living things.

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