<story><title>In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>namecast</author><text>The paragraph before the one you just quoted:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We Zimbabweans are left shaking our heads, wondering why Americans care more about African animals than about African people.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;And the paragraph directly after:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;And please, don’t offer me condolences about Cecil unless you’re also willing to offer me condolences for villagers killed or left hungry by his brethren, by political violence, or by hunger.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Please don&amp;#x27;t care about the animals in my country more than you care about me and my countrymen&amp;quot; is a reasonable request. I don&amp;#x27;t see anything terrible about it. I&amp;#x27;m not sure why you dropped the surrounding context.</text></item><item><author>charlesray</author><text>&amp;gt;Don’t tell us what to do with our animals when you allowed your own mountain lions to be hunted to near extinction in the eastern United States. Don’t bemoan the clear-cutting of our forests when you turned yours into concrete jungles.&lt;p&gt;So don&amp;#x27;t learn from our mistakes, basically?&lt;p&gt;This is among the most ignorant things I have ever read. Terrible article from a person with a terrible mentality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>charlesray</author><text>The sad truth is...we DO care about their people. And there is simply more we can do for their lions than their people. Because you can pass a law saying &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t kill lions,&amp;quot; you can ban the trade of lion carcasses&amp;#x2F;trophies&amp;#x2F;etc., and you can make a big dent in the numbers of lions killed. But how are we supposed to help feed their people when their corrupt as fuck government takes all of our aid? This isn&amp;#x27;t the real world we live in, guys.</text></comment>
<story><title>In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>namecast</author><text>The paragraph before the one you just quoted:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We Zimbabweans are left shaking our heads, wondering why Americans care more about African animals than about African people.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;And the paragraph directly after:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;And please, don’t offer me condolences about Cecil unless you’re also willing to offer me condolences for villagers killed or left hungry by his brethren, by political violence, or by hunger.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Please don&amp;#x27;t care about the animals in my country more than you care about me and my countrymen&amp;quot; is a reasonable request. I don&amp;#x27;t see anything terrible about it. I&amp;#x27;m not sure why you dropped the surrounding context.</text></item><item><author>charlesray</author><text>&amp;gt;Don’t tell us what to do with our animals when you allowed your own mountain lions to be hunted to near extinction in the eastern United States. Don’t bemoan the clear-cutting of our forests when you turned yours into concrete jungles.&lt;p&gt;So don&amp;#x27;t learn from our mistakes, basically?&lt;p&gt;This is among the most ignorant things I have ever read. Terrible article from a person with a terrible mentality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StavrosK</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think people care more about animals than about people. It was a cruel way to kill an animal, that&amp;#x27;s what&amp;#x27;s riling people up. If you baited a person and shot them with a bow and arrow, and then hired hunters to track them down and kill them, people would be much more outraged.&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t easily compare &amp;quot;unprovoked cruelty against animals&amp;quot; with &amp;quot;everyday life below the poverty line&amp;quot;.</text></comment>