Wild Bear Castrated For Sniffing Woman’s Hair: Seems Harsh
A young, wild black bear that was captured on camera calmly smelling the hair of a parkgoer in Mexico has been castrated by officials.
The juvenile bear was deemed a threat after it approached the people at the Chipinque Ecological Park in July, the BBC reported.
Authorities have come under fire on social media for the decision to catch and castrate the animal. They have also been criticized by some for their plans to transport it from Nuevo León to a mountainous area in Chihuahua.
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I mean right off the bat this seems prettyyyy pretttyyyyy mean to the bear. After some research, it seems we’ve got an early leader of “Misleading Headline of the Week”. Contrary to what the mass media wants you to believe, it appears that the bear was not castrated as a punishment for sniffing the woman’s hair, but rather to prevent it from getting in fights with other bears when it’s moved to a new home.
To be absolutely clear, I am not a bear scientist. This makes no sense to me. Idon’t know why we have to cut mr. bear’s balls off before he goes to a new forest. Because I don’t know anything about bears other than the fact that the football team disappoints me on a consistent basis, and the one in The Revenant really fucked Leo’s shit up, I can’t say whether or not treating this bear like it’s a supporting character on Game of Thrones is a good idea, let alone justice.
To be honest, castration does seem pretty drastic. What did the bears balls have to do with the sniffing of the hair? Wouldn’t you want to take his nose? PETA representatives, if you’re out there, I’m not advocating for that. That’s a little of Dante’s contrapasso for you. For those of you who didn’t spend your college years getting a worthless degree, that’s Dante Alighieri’s concept for the ‘crime fits the punishment’. In his epic work, Dante’s Inferno, Dante journeys through the seven circles of hell, and describes each example of this contrapasso he encounters. For example, those who were gluttonous and spent their life in waste and filth now lie in slime and mud for eternity, forever tortured by the demon dog Cerberus. You’re welcome for the literature lesson.
So while Mexico might be jumping the gun by castrating a bear, it seems like a pretty good fit for a dude! I think if we started snip-snapping the pipes of creepy dudes, we’d have a lot less creepy dudes! I don’t want to stop at dudes! This goes for the ladies as well! If you’re a lady out there sniffing someone’s hair, you’re gonna get your tubes tied (I do not know if this is a thing for humans).
