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I just received another e-mail form The Defenders of Wildlife, outlining Idaho's new proposal to kill wolves. The governor said he'd like to be the first to shoot one himself. Wyoming is proposing to "aggressively manage" its wolf population by killing at least 66% of the population.

It's days like these and news like the above that make me want to do drastic things. When I mean drastic, it makes me feel like I want to be dead, because I am ashamed I am human.

Please don't mistake this post as a suicide threat, because it's not. I would never take my own life. But hypothetically, it sounds reasonable to me. If I were, I'd leave a small book written by me before my last moments outlining exactly why I chose to end my life. It makes me sad, ashamed, and angry that I am among these horrible human beings. People who think they're better than animals, hell, even better than other people. People who have no qualms in killing an animal just to "reduce the population." People who approve of horrible ways of hunting animals and people who abuse animals. People who throw their trash on the ground without a care in the world. People who b***h to Yellowstone to widen their roads so their ******** mobile homes can make it to a campsite one with otherwise have to drive to or even walk to (and they have started this effort, so I hear). People who don't give a s**t about recycling or wasting water because "they'll be dead by the time things start to happen."

I'm not even talking about the environment. Even look at our fellow man. Restaurants give people WAY too much ******** food for a serving. Millions of Americans a DAY waste enough food to feed all the third world countries for a damn year. I don't have facts, and I never read that, but I can count on me being somewhat close to that. Regardless, people are starving in the Middle East and Africa, and Americans are shoveling food in their faces at every opportunity they can. We're so damn obese that diet and pill commericals plague the television hour after hour. Are we that ******** selfish? We procreate to "carry on" the genes pool, but what about the children in homes? People spit on the homeless and tell them to get a ******** job, stop drinking, and to live somewhere else other than in front of the library while they go home and snuggle into their warm beds in their warm houses with warm food. What happened? I don't even consider us to be human anymore. The word "humanity" has lost all of its meaning to me. In The Matrix, the antagonist related the human race to a virus. I did then, and do more so now believe that statement 100 percent of the way. We b***h and moan about religion this and religion that. When did the world get so uptight about things other than reality? "Religion is real, blah blah blah." To some people yes. But what I mean is what happened to the real issues, like war, famine, plagues, pain, violence? How is religion going to solve that?

I know I'm ranting, and that was the entire purpose. I'm still angry, but I needed to get that out. I can go on and on and on. If you feel like responding to this, you're more than welcome to, and I discourage flames and instead open this up to mature discussion. I'll actually be shocked if anyone read this, but yeah. I can always count on you guys to let me vent. ^.~

Don't ever hate humans. That kind of thinking disgusts me. Yes, we have hurt the Earth. We've hurt a lot of things. But think about what we can do. We evolved from weak, useless animals with no natural defenses. We used the power of our minds to give ourselves the claws and teeth we lacked. We taught ourselves art, architecture, literature, advanced government, and many would say we created religion when the world seemed to make no sense at all.

Look at your pets. See how happy and healthy they are? Have you seen the advanced foods that have lengthened their lives and made their bodies far stronger than they could have been in the wild? Have you ever studied the incredibly advanced medical care availiable to them? Do you have any idea that Vet school is actually more complex, difficult to get into, and austere than doctorates for our own physical care?

Read a classic novel. Dive into the beautiful prose and turn of phrase. We took language, originally just a way to basely communicate, and made it flow like the elements and the turning of the stars themselves. We've invented deep artistic expression when no other species could comprehend the nature of a picture. Now African Grey parrots and great apes have learned and can understand what we have taught them.

Most of the pollution on the Earth was from the Industrial Revolution--one short burst of irresponsibility did in fact ruin much of the Earth. But, we were in the infancy of this science and are now taking steps to counteract it. Architecture, manufacturing, textiles, plastics, and others are taking steps to counteract the mistakes of the past. Styrofoam is now largely banned and where it's not it's no longer used by most people.

The brilliance, art, compassion, and beauty of humanity is so often overlooked by pessimists. The news broadcasts only the worst. Advocacy groups ignore all of the things we're doing to change. Even this current atrocity is being fought against. Genetic engineering, cloning, selective breeding, and other methods are being used to help endangered species and even ressurect exctinct ones.

We are changing. We are working. We're doing out best to help. Hating humanity is bizarre and it pisses me off. I don't mean to be rude, but hating your fellow man won't do jack s**t to help the Earth. Recognizing the beauty and brilliance we are all born with and USING IT TO HELP are all we can do. Insulting, throwing red paint, harassment, and all that radical bullshit DOES NOT HELP A DAMNED THING.

Ugh. I'm sorry. It just pisses me off.

EDIT: I read the rest of the thread (yes, I posted without reading. Sorry. I got mad.) and I'm not bitching at Alinea. I just see this "waaah humans are so bad" crap all the time and it drives me crazy. There are whole subcultures actually denying being human and ragging on all of the issues. It just bugs me so much. I'm not talking about Alinea's words, they're not as bad as the stuff I'm talking about, but some statements smacked of that philosophy that I hate so vehemently.

I did kind of go crazy, I apologise. It's the one thing guaranteed to upset me. I try not to rant and rave, preferring instead to do something about it. If it really bugs me I usually just privately whine about it to my boyfriend. I got caught in a particularly foul mood though and I'm sorry.

The real problem is not the whole species (the curse of generalizing), it's the morons in power. You can count on the little people to be in charge, but unfortunately we're set up to elect the most power-hungry, caniving, blood-curtling fiends to powerful positions. As some philosopher said, "power absolute corrupts absolute." It's really screwy that the people who have the resources to do what's right are most often finding more money which they will use for basically nothing--EXCEPT, of course, to get more money and to screw up Earth EVEN MORE.

Aww that is so sad! I can't believe the would do something like that. Well then again I am not that suprised considering todays society! stare

66% is an extremely steep cull for a native species, especially one that's just been taken off the list.
They would do better to simply take out verified offenders[ individuals that have been observed to cause problems amongst livestock] instead of wiping out whole packs and on that massive scale.

I sometimes have the thought of being dead because i am also ashamed of being a human. Its horrible how humans think they own this world. The animals have just as much of a right to live, maybe more of a right, then humans.