Many years ago when the Earth’s molten core had just begun to cool I had a geography professor ( now passed on ) who in the midst of a discussion about conservation admitted that in the abstract he had more concern for an individual baby elephant than any individual human child. The elephants after all were far fewer and declining and there was certainly no shortage of children. So I asked him if that meant he would go out of his way to save a baby elephant before a child and he replied " well, of course not - I’m not a monster" ;).
I assume 90% of the people who said voted ‘panda’ are taking the piss and the other 10% are just awfully earnest is a college sophomore sort of way. They don’t need institutionalization, a little eye-rolling is sufficient.
Honestly if it were a lesser panda nobody would blame you. They are so weapons-grade cute I wouldn’t doubt they can manipulate people almost as well as the Hypno-Toad.
Sorta, actually. They’re relatives of the raccoon ( sister family to them and the weasels, more or less ), but have the same shitty-ass bamboo diet as pandas.
How do you know the patents left a baby unattended? Maybe they drowned first.
Are we allowed to ask *what the fuck is wrong with you *? In this forum? 'Cause…what the fuck is wrong with you? You would enjoy a baby drowning? That’s fucked up.
Kudos to your well-stated premise. Now explain it to that guy in rags sitting on the sidewalk, the one you walk past every day on your way home – oh, wait, you cannot do that, he froze to death in an alley night before last, I guess everyone thought he was SEP. That car you saw day before yesterday, plowed up into a snowbank, did you stop to see if you could help, or were you on your way to somewhere important and they were just also SEP? (I mean, after all, eventually the cops will notice them and render professional aid, that is what we pay them for, right?) You get my point, we spend an enormous amount of time ignoring other people and their troubles.
Yeah, I think our social contract is just a little to heavily salted with fine print. American culture appears to structured to force us into boxes where we stop caring much about those other people, the ones outside our particular box. The genuine community feel is mostly gone, those other people are Somebody Else’s Problem.
It scares me knowing that you’re the legal guardian of some of your relatives. Seriously, WTF is wrong with you? That’s the kind of thing a sociopath would think.
I voted for baby panda, because I’m going on the assumption that the parents of the baby are already trying to save it, you know, because it’s their baby!
Not only would I save the baby, but I’d cut the panda open, scoop out a cavity in its entrails, and put the baby inside to keep it from going into hypothermia.
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Not only would I save the baby, but I’d cut the panda open, scoop out a cavity in its entrails, and put the baby inside to keep it from going into hypothermia.
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Great minds…I was thinking of the same thing to keep the panda warm.
