It is not about "deserving" as much as it is contributing to society. It is our ability as humans to see how we could benefit from another that has made us survive. I'm sure you feel this way about this lion, but go on and put yourself in a lion's den and Im sure you would be begging for a human to come and save you.

I don't believe humans are necessarily "above" other creatures exactly, as when we die we go back to nature and dealt with swiftly by all types of creatures...

Maybe we also are a bunch of hypocrites, because if it was for another lion, we wouldn't know about it, and would have continued our lives knowing people still kill animals for sport.

I think what he did was horrible, and I'm so against hunting animals for sport, but at the same time, this news wouldn't be half as mediatized if it wasn't for Cecil. There's a bit of hypocrisy from every side.

So glad more and more people are coming out against this inhumane and evil act.

I'm disgusted by anyone trying to defend him or even attempting to be "PC" about this situation, especially with all the facts that are known about the murder. There is no excuse for what he did. He deserves to be punished, and vilified, for it.

I didn't realize the OP was updated with an actual photo of the dead lion after it was killed. Poor thing.

It took the killing of a well-known lion, out of thousands of other animals, to shed light/protest change on poaching? The man is scum, but this outrage from these celebrities and others comes across as fake and disingenuous. Watch as a few weeks passes by, these people will go on with their lives and not give a single **** about those animals or the trophy-game hunters.

I'm with what Sophia Bush wrote.

Bc this was reported in the media, so more people know about this.

I'm glad to see celebrities being vocal about this

Stop comparing it to everything.
1. Comparing it to chickens? I mean we eat the chicken for protein and health, we don't spend $50,000 to lure it out of it's natural habitat, attempt to kill it, fail then try again. PS. Not every animal has the same level of importance. E.G. Killing a mouse and a whale are two different things.
2. This got more media than black people because it's a rare incident, this does not happen very often so it's attraction is greater than something that happens frequently.

Thank you !!!

The op picture is from another lion hunt back 2008 i think. a different lion

altogether police brutality against black Americans this past year has gotten WAY more coverage than this lion. Id argue that Mike Brown, Eric Garner, pool party girl, Sandra Black have been covered as much if not more than this. i guess you could say there is less outrage in the general public bc its become so commonplace to hear about police brutality now, its kinda sad. Also circumstances in these cases are always murkier so you have people siding with the police, racism plays a part

As were various other poachings. Not seeing the point.

f*ck that asshole.disgusting

I think the reason people keep bringing chickens, pigs, and cows into this is because the ones we eat for lunch and dinner actually went through far worse than the animals that are hunted.
Factory farms are a living hell for animals... and that's where we get almost 90% of our meat from.

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-Every male pig is castrated without any pain killers and anesthesia (they literally cut every baby pigs testicles off without any anesthesia because it's expensive... and this is totally legal in the U.S., Canada, Europe)
-Since the pigs are trapped in a small, crammed, cages for the months and months.. the pigs get so miserable and frustrated that they start biting on the walls and cages in a attempt to get out and break free which is why every baby pigs teeth are pulled out without anesthesia too.
-The beaks of chickens are burned off so that they don't peak the cages or each other to death out of frustration of being locked in a crammed battery cage until they are slaughtered.
-To take the feathers off the chickens some employees are lazy as hell so they don't even bother killing the chicken first.. they just throw the chickens in boiling water while they are alive because it's easier than to blow them with a electric gun to their head. (you have to boil them to get the feathers off easier)
-Female cows are stuck in small walls in which they can't even move around much and their udders are attached to machines almost 24/7 to pump milk out. Their udders become swollen from all the pumping but they don't receive pain killers.
-Female pigs are kept in gestation crates (google it)
-The pigs that fall ill or don't grow probably are killed by slamming their head on the ground or by taking a sledge hammer to the head (it's much cheaper than the euthanasia they do for dogs)

(This happens in every major factory farm) There are videos. Even chick-fil-a chicken farms were boiling chicken alive.