Wolf Bounty & Compulsory Bear Spray

 

 

Back when I was teaching College English courses, one of the ways I’d get students engaged in a writing assignment was to pose a question and have them answer it, simple Q&A essays which rarely caught me off guard. One day I posed the question, “If a dog and a child were each drowning in the same body of water at the same time, and you could only save one, which would you rescue?” 

A staggering number of students answered they would save the dog. I was taken aback, something in our society had shifted. I thought perhaps it was just that small, random sampling of students, but over the next few years I continued to pose the same question and “saving the dog” became an increasingly standard answer. The societal shift had continued and grown more alarming. We see that shift in clear focus with apex predator worship. 

Last week it was revealed that animal rights activists are pushing the State of Montana to require bear spray be carried by hunters and trappers. A similar petition was filed with the Wyoming Game & Fish Department in 2019. The group filing the Montana petition is small, but rest assured, they are determined and petitions like this won’t go away anytime soon. Crazy? Yes. Determined? 100%

I don’t know what the outcome of the Montana bear spray petition will be. I’m betting it won’t come to fruition but folks thought the same thing of Socialism in the United States and look where we are today. 

The latest predator worship lunacy has come in the form of a bounty on legal wolf hunters who kill a member of the famous Mollie’s wolf pack, which has moved out of Yellowstone National Park and into a Wyoming wolf hunt area, thus making themselves fair game for hunters with a wolf tag when season opens. 

Wolf “advocacy” activists are offering a “bounty” of $10,000 for the name and personal information of anyone who legally kills a member of the Mollie’s. This move is meant to intimidate legal wolf hunters. Hunters who legally tag a Mollie’s wolf will no doubt be harassed, threatened, and possibly assaulted by wolf worshipers worldwide. 

That’s the sad reality of today’s world. People who are detached from the realities of the natural world personificate predators, and place them on a pedestal above scientific management and worst of all, above the lives of human beings. 

From mandatory bear spray to human bounties placed on legal wolf hunters, it’s all lunacy which I don’t understand today any better than I did when I assigned those essays years ago. 

I have my own beliefs on all of this but I want to know. . . What’s your take?