Lions of Timbavati

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While, personally, I've recently stopped watching a majority of videos containing kills, of lions or by lions, lions as predators or victims, that is a choice I make, and a choice I am provided by the release of said videos. If these videos are not made available for the people who do wish to watch them, people who I believe to be in a very large majority, then I do not agree with that. When the videos are released people have a choice to watch them or not, but when these videos exist and someone makes the decision to not release it, then they are making a choice for others, based on the feelings of a small minority of people. Just because I choose to not watch them, at least at this point in my life (something that could just as easily change in the near future), does not mean that I believe that someone who does wish to watch them shouldn't be given the choice. I used to watch them all, and during that time I am sure there were people who chose not to watch them, which is fine as well. I don't demand that others must feel, and believe, the same things in the same ways that I do, there is way too much of this mindset today, and I find it incredibly weak minded. People demanding such things belong to a small group that feel entitled, and only ever thinks of themselves. The problem today is that too many people, not just in the wildlife world, worry about the feelings of a handful of people, giving those few people agency on how others are allowed to live their lives, others who only wish to mind their own business and live their own lives how they see fit.

Some people need to get a grip, and understand that they'd be a lot happier in their own lives if they stopped caring how other people were living theirs. I hope the reserves know that the people calling for these videos to not be released are the minority, and that they will always have the support of the community at large. If people don't like their releasing a video, tell them this isn't Clockwork Orange, they have the choice to not watch it, and if they don't like that, tell them to pound sand. All I can say, to those people, is don't bring that nonsense here, you will not be well received. Reply