Animals and the society we live in.

Has anyone actually read any of the articles surrounding what happened in Ohio with the animals that were on the loose?

Here's a summary: Dude had a bunch of wild/exotic animals on his private animal farm, there were reports he was abusing some of the animals, and then he let them all go into the public just before killing himself. Authorities did the best they could to keep everyone and everything safe, and have the support of animal experts.

Yeah, it's super unfortunate and heartbreaking that all those animals had to be killed (there were a few that survived and are being cared for at the Columbus Zoo); I'm all for animal rights and for treating animals ethically and all that, but what the fuck else could be done? At some point you've got to open your mind and weigh all the options. I'm pretty sure if you knew all these wild animals - that have been kept captive, possibly abused, and can potentially kill a human within seconds if even slightly provoked (even unintentionally) - were out roaming around unaccounted for, if you came face to face with one of these animals, you would more likely than not do whatever you could to not get killed. They saved the animals they could, they tried to lure them back to the compound so they could lock them up again, but in the end, we end up with a story about people looking out for the health and well-being of other people.

And isn't that what a community, or even a society, should be? To have each other's back and to care for one another? It sucks that it had to be under these circumstances, but at least there's some hope that people can make these tough decisions to make sure their neighbor, who they may or may not know, doesn't die.