BE Free or Die Hard! Sounds familiar?

Sasha, greenville South carolina, USA

@ Geminate, OC, USA - are your pious ramblings at all relevant in the circumstances of this young man's death?

philip, cambridge,

It saddens me greatly to see a magnificent rare Sibiran Tiger being killed after all ,Tatiana just followed her natural instinct.It seems someone unwittingly helped Tatiana to escape but did not forsee the consequences.But never the less,if it is proven so, then by all means send them back to play with the Tigers.But the San Francisco Zoo Officials are also to blame ,Tigers are known to Jump,and Jump very high so it seems the Zoo was negligent for not ensuring the barrier was adequate enough.I find it so sad that the Police had to shoot to kill ,You would think there are tranquiliser guns at the ready for such an occasion.Well at least Security will be greatly improved,sadly it always takes a tragedy for the powers to be to act.

Ingrid Olbricht, Wellington, New Zealand

Imagine yourself being a free wild animal which requires a substantial habitat in which to hunt and enjoy being alive. It is written into your soul to be wild and free. Then your world becomes this tiny space, day after day, year after year, the same tiny space. If I were the tiger I would be thinking night and day how to get out of there, how to be free and to hunt those humans who stuck me in this tiny space, who destroyed my life, who owe me everything. All humans are guilty, standing there, watching me. I will have their blood, I will eat their flesh, I will kill the cruel humans, I will make them pay, I will be free, no matter what.

Tigers belong on a reserve, not in cages, not in a zoo. They are the wildest of animals, they must have miles to roam. How can this go on, penning them up, causing them to sink into the deepest of depressions?

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Geminate, OC, USA

When they finally do get a chance to escape they go crazy, killing everything running wild - after years, even decades of abuse. If I stuck you in a room, with nothing to do, wouldn't you eventually go mad? How is it that a higher mammal would not also go mad? Its reward for freeing itself? Death.

According to God, all living organisms have a soul, even humans have a soul. It is the soul that makes an animal act and behave like the animal that it is. A dog barks, a cat meows, a cow moos. A man doesn't act like a dog, normally, or crawl on his belly like a snake, since he has the soul of a man. Man, according to God, has an extra bonus, a spirit. It is the spirit that makes man immortal, and rise to being and behaving higher than an animal or plant.

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Geminate, OC, USA

Ignorant people consider the soul to be the spirit, but they are
two distinct and different gifts. The soul dictates us to behave like men, the spirit allows us to be God-like, affording us an afterlife and an eternity. Plants and animals, according to God, only have a soul, they are not spirit beings, they do not have an afterlife, they do not live forever.

Geminate, OC, USA