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Originally Posted by kane
There is a really good movie called The Elephant in the Living Room that is about people who keep exotic animals as pets. One of the guys in the movie runs a company that rescues these animals from people and captures them if they are let loose. He was saying that in nearly all cases with big cats there is no good ending. Either the cat ends up dead or badly injured or the owner does or in many cases both.
At one point they did a hidden camera where they went to a big exotic pet sale. One guy bought his little kid a pet alligator and thought it would be cool to tame it. He was trying to explain they can't tame it and in a few years it will be 8 feet long and be eating their kids and dogs, but they didn't care. They had all kinds of crazy, venomous snakes and reptiles of all kinds. It was wild and tragic.
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Though of course, owning such animals is generally illegal everywhere, the example illustrates why. This is why we need so many idiotic laws... people need to be protected from themselves and each other. Left to their own devices, they buy cheetahs for their kids to play with. They will make insanely stupid decisions that affect or kill those around them. They will smoke themselves to death, drink themselves to death, eat themselves to death. They get drunk and drive through crowds of children etc etc etc.
Thanks to "freedom", we live in one of the fattest, unhappiest, most unhealthy and dumbest nations on this earth.
If I thought that buying a crocodile or large cat or poisonous snake would only affect the owner, I would certainly be the first to stand up and say "hey, you know what... you should get a poisonous snake and keep it in your home" and then this general problem of increasing stupidity and sense of entitlement among the masses would start to correct itself.