Poll: Should We let pandas become extinct?

[Aeshi]

Oh come on, if the Panda was a Lizard or something less cute nobody would've cared and they would be dead.

I say get rid of them, but sadly as long as the "It's cute it must live!" crowd exist that won't happen

 

[Merkavar]

we messed it up so we should fix it.

also there might be genetic/pharmicutical (lol spelling) properties that are olny found in pandas. so its best just to try to keep them alive.

 

[baker80]

Isn't it funny how whether or not an animal is saved from extinction is based on how closely it resembles a two-year-old child? We wouldn't be having this debate if the question were about the hagfish or some species of lobster.

I can't condone the continued existence of an animal as INTENSELY stupid as the panda, but by the same token, the only thing worse than the panda protectors now will be the panda protectors after they've all gone. Like a surviving spouse, their departed SO will become more and more idealized as the years go on, until the panda becomes the symbol of everything beautiful and innocent in the world, and becomes the symbol for -- oh God, my brain's locked up just thinking about it.

Much agreed. Pandas are so bloody stupid they can't figure out how to breed to save their own species from extinction. They are of no value at all ecologically. They can't even figure out how to EAT properly. There is simply no good reason to save them, except because they look cute.

Dozens of species go extinct every year, both naturally and because of human intervention. Plants, birds, insects, spiders, fish... All of them more important to their ecologies than the Panda. But do people care about that? No, of course they don't, because spiders and deep-sea fish don't look like stuffed toys.

People suck, really.

 

[Denamic]

Species go extinct every day.
Why should pandas be kept around?
Because they look cute?

 

[shadyh8er]

Yes!

I mean seriously, what do they contribute to the environment? Less bamboo? India does that already by making flutes.

 

[Scarim Coral]

No, the Panda have the right to exist since they have a place on Earth like many other animals. We shouldn't set example to the next generations after us that we couldn't be bother to safe them. Look what happen to the Dodo and the many more extinct animals (like this giant tortoise, walrus and this tiger), we shouldn't repeat past mistake.

 

[Valdus]

I think they shouldn't be saved. The money and effort spent to keep them going go be used to save a lot of other endangered species that are willing to get it on.

Some species are meant to die out. HUmans aren't the only causes - Nature can be a ***** sometimes as well.

 

[Zhukov]

It's going to happen.

We don't have any choice in the matter.

 

[Ophiuchus]

I'm all for just leaving them alone. It's not up to us to play creator or destroyer. If a species can't survive on its own... well, that's nature doing what nature's best at. It'd be a different story if we were actively destroying them, but we're not.

 

[teebeeohh]

while human are responsible for a lot of species dying this is also part of evolution adn pandas are so highly specialized in their living requirements that most likely still would have gone extinct with human meddeling

 

[Darkwhite]

One of the reasons they're dying is they don't want to have sex, I think thats a sign of wanting to die out lol

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

OK. Enough of the emotions, enough of the debate, just enough of all of it. Time to end this thread.


I don't mean to sound cold, cruel or vicious, but I am so that's the way it comes out.

 

[kasperbbs]

IMO we should just leave them be, if they can survive in their natural habitat (assuming that there are still places not overrun by humans) then great, if not then its not worth the effort in making them our house pets. All we should do is prevent people from hunting them and stop destroying their home.

 

[Mr Thin]

OK. Enough of the emotions, enough of the debate, just enough of all of it. Time to end this thread.


I don't mean to sound cold, cruel or vicious, but I am so that's the way it comes out.

If I may contribute to the comedians that have discussed this topic:

Spoiler: Warning. Foul language ahead.

 

[floppylobster]

To say we have the power to change evolution would be to assume that we're not part of it. The Panda lives because we think it looks cute. We can't help that. It's not a choice.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Killing of other species is a sideeffect of being a sucessful species. Extinction is just natural.

 

[ZydrateDealer]

I'm not a Christian but we do have a duty of care to these beings that cannot understand their predicament. Also people have got to stop calling them a 'fuck up of evolution', evolution is nothing but (useful) mutations, essentially fuck ups of genes that happened to help the creature survive. Wildlife experts aren't necessarily biologists, they may not understand evolution as an alarming amount of people who champion it don't. Sorry for the rant; but I'm more than happy to give a short description of evolution to anyone who wants to know more.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

My Reaction:


Surprised no one has done that yet.

OT: No. We fucked them over. It's our burden to....bear [pun not intended]

 

[Trippy Turtle]

I'm all for just leaving them alone. It's not up to us to play creator or destroyer. If a species can't survive on its own... well, that's nature doing what nature's best at. It'd be a different story if we were actively destroying them, but we're not.

but we are playing destroyer look at all we have done to their habitat. besides would you like to go extinct because "we are to expensive to keep around"?

P.S don't let Mr.pandah see this thread.

 

[fletch_talon]

I love the overwhelming opinion of the "let them die" crowd.
"You only care because they're cute, if it were a lizard you would let it die."

Bullshit. Believe it or not some of us, quite possibly most of us who believe in the panda's right to live do so because we are generally disgusted by the way animals are driven to extinction through human ignorance and greed. That's all animals not just the cute ones.

It just so happens that the cute animals make the best mascots.