• RubberElectrons@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Apparently I’m in the minority, but this was cruel and unnecessary. We’re in what was their home, after all.

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      9 months ago

      Not disagreeing about the cruel part but some of these birds live and breed because of humans. They survive in place where they couldn’t without humans.

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      9 months ago

      I cannot be convinced killing a wingrat is ever wrong, but I respect your viewpoint.

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        9 months ago

        For a bird to get caught usually implies they aren’t feeling so good… imagining killing a sick seagull makes me sad.

        They’re aggressive and rude about trying to survive, yes, but we’re top of the food chain, and have kinda nicked a tremendous amount of their fish out of the water.

        (Shrug) what’s done is done, but I’d lose a lot of respect for this man if I knew him.

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          9 months ago

          I’ve caught one before as an early teen for a bet. It wasn’t sick to my knowledge, just utterly unafraid of people and no harder to wrangle than a chicken once you get in range.

          My memery aside, I agree bare handed killing a seagull to take revenge is sorta barbaric, which is why this isn’t actually a pro-brit meme

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            9 months ago

            That’s true, I’m eating the onion, sort of. Good luck to you and yours, especially with your superhuman capture ability haha