Hi guys. I'm alive... badly injured for my stupidity but I'm alright.
Anyway, I was just shown a video of an experienced paddler in Capetown catching a giant squid that was injured, and drug it all the way back to shore where it later died.
Now, here's where I'm conflicted. This man @jamestaylor has it in his mind that he was trying to "help" the squid. He is not a marine biologist. At all. Just a very experienced surfer who lives his life on the waves. And loves the ocean. That's fair. And this wasn't just any kind of squid, it was a giant squid. It is one of the rare finds of human interaction with marine life. It's beautiful and mezmerising... but I feel this way about it;
We? As humans? Have our world. It is on the shore. Marine animals? Have their world. The ocean.
Marine animals all live and die, like us. And this squid was dying naturally in its own world, and a human interfered with that. For "views" or "research" (he tried saying research happened, but I've yet to find any direct sources of what actually happened to the squid once it was on shore and died. No research took place to my knowledge. Just pictures and videos. "Views").
...the fuck is the guy trying to do playing Mother Nature? Taking a naturally dying creature out of its world to suffocate to death in our world on shore and have a way more brutal death than it would have?
Like I said, it is very rare for us humans to come into contact with a squid of that stature... so it's very mesmerizing footage. But I mean, come on... really?
The ocean has more Force and power than our world. Who are we to meddle in what isn't ours? What gives us the fuckin right? I donno.
Just curious what others think about it and can't sleep.
Anyway, I was just shown a video of an experienced paddler in Capetown catching a giant squid that was injured, and drug it all the way back to shore where it later died.
Now, here's where I'm conflicted. This man @jamestaylor has it in his mind that he was trying to "help" the squid. He is not a marine biologist. At all. Just a very experienced surfer who lives his life on the waves. And loves the ocean. That's fair. And this wasn't just any kind of squid, it was a giant squid. It is one of the rare finds of human interaction with marine life. It's beautiful and mezmerising... but I feel this way about it;
We? As humans? Have our world. It is on the shore. Marine animals? Have their world. The ocean.
Marine animals all live and die, like us. And this squid was dying naturally in its own world, and a human interfered with that. For "views" or "research" (he tried saying research happened, but I've yet to find any direct sources of what actually happened to the squid once it was on shore and died. No research took place to my knowledge. Just pictures and videos. "Views").
...the fuck is the guy trying to do playing Mother Nature? Taking a naturally dying creature out of its world to suffocate to death in our world on shore and have a way more brutal death than it would have?
Like I said, it is very rare for us humans to come into contact with a squid of that stature... so it's very mesmerizing footage. But I mean, come on... really?
The ocean has more Force and power than our world. Who are we to meddle in what isn't ours? What gives us the fuckin right? I donno.
Just curious what others think about it and can't sleep.
