• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    They should release them. They might not survive but at least they’ll have a chance.

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      15 hours ago

      Release them where exactly? someone still has to pay to move them somewhere to be released. I mean you can’t just let them loose in Niagara Falls unless you want 30 Beluga Whales falling on top of the Maid of the Mist.

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        12 hours ago

        It’s funny how they didn’t have any problem paying the huge expense of bringing them there but suddenly money is scarce when it is time to take care of them or brigning them back.

        They should be legally required to pay to fix it. To me this is no different than an oil company having to pay to cleanup whenever they make a spill.

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        Or even an adult who has never gone camping being dropped in the middle of Alaska, the Amazon, or the Ghobi desert. Odds of survival are low and they are gonna suffer from starvation, thirst, getting sick from eating/drinking from the wrong sources, or being prey to something they don’t know how to avoid. Maybe all four!

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          Hell, you could release such an adult where I live in NW Florida. Very forgiving ecosystem yet even I wouldn’t last a month.

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        The alternative is the equivalent of shooting the toddlers in the back of the head.

        Either way is horrible.

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        Not necessarily. These animals can be acclimatized and eased into it in stages to give them a fighting chance. Even if the chance of success is slim, I still fully expect the assholes who decided to breed these animals in captivity to be financially liable to cover the cost of that.

        Otherwise, whoever owns these animals should be legally bound to financially support them until they die of old age. If someone decides to breed sentient creatures in captivity they should know that they can’t just discard them like an old newspaper if that doesn’t turn out to be a good investment.