By the way, that smilie was for Shatterer not you...
Yours is this one
OK... here we go...
How ironic,
Just like your opinion on MJ, brought to you by Entertainment Tonight?...
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Don't even try to discuss that, because you'll loose... so let's not go there...
Again, your comment about humans "outsmarting" apes therefore that's why they are in zoos is in fact stupid... sorry, but it is...
It's like saying that since animals are outsmarted they are hunted by humans...
or that victims are stupid because they got shot by a killer...
or people got outsmarted and killed in war...
get it yet?
As for the zoos...
Ancient cultures starting having zoos because they felt empowered by having exotic animal collections... Romans had them for "recreation" in arenas, Egyptians had them, and pretty much every other culture had them, mostly for displaying human power over beasts...
Though currently some zoos promote animal conservation and have better facilities for the animals, most of them still have very questionable practices and conditions...
I do believe that a lot of people that work at zoos are there for the right reasons, but you can't deny the origins of a practice...
Like box and wrestling are based on human instinct and ego...
If you want me to quote a bunch of websites to 'validate" my comments,
well, here you
go!