A big part of being human seems to be our capacity -- our need to cherish and protect cute things.
But not all humans seem to feel that cute cuddly little fuzzy critters should be kept alive. 
Knut (pronounced KuhNUT) is a three month old polar bear cub living with a zookeeper in Germany. The cub's mother, a former circus bear, rejected him and his twin. The twin died. Knut lived. This had all taken place at the zoo in Germany. Had this taken place in the wild, the cub would've died.
That is the heart of the controversy around Knut. Some animal rights activists that are, I suppose, sort of co-anti-PETA types, feel that he should be put to death -- euthanized -- because he should not be alive. He's being hand-raised by humans, and this is, according to this group, a gross violation of animal protection laws. The activists say that the zoo is condemning the bear to a dysfunctional life.
So what they're saying is that it's okay for people to live well, but bears must be condemned to harsh lives in circuses.
Fucking knutjobs.
Euthanize The Knutjobs!
The trouble with these cute Knuts is they grow up to be polar bears! There's a faction of animals' rights peeps who don't believe in zoos, pets, or any human interference with nature. They probably think we should all kill ourselves. But discounting that, I'm not sure why Knut in particular has sparked such a kerfuffle when zoos are always messing with nature.
They should take him to a deserted tropical island and let him mess with the survivors of the plane crash.
That's a reference to "Lost" for those of you not watching at home.
Let Knut Live!
Awww, he's cute. My vote is to give him to some lonely kid to raise and love and sooner or later he'll get too big to handle and the kid will have to make a grown up decision when the bear drags home the crippled little girl next door and it's clear the kid can no longer handle him so in an act of bravery that will break your heart shoots the bear right between the running lights but is comforted by the now-rescued but somewhat scarred crippled girl so they live happily ever after except for the bear nightmares the kid has thereafter which causes him to roam around every night snuffing fur-wearing yuppie scumbags and Samuel L Jackson has to track him down and in yet another act of bravery that will break your heart, shoot him in an alleyway as he's about to field-dress Paris Hilton so Samuel L Jackson gets laid, too, and meanwhile the crippled girl lives on her freezer full of bear-burgers till she writes a novel about all this and sells it to Hollywood which gets her enough money to de-cripplize herself and she turns into a party monster and winds up bloated, purple, and dead in a Bahamian motel room, all of which is a PETA-friendly message to NOT fuck with the bears.
- AD -
(Looking for a script writer...)
Stupidest thing I've ever heard. The animal is fortunate to be in an environment that can provide a life when it wouldn't have one. That's the point of modern technology. Those knutjobs are puerile idiots who feed their idiocy with attention.
AD, okay, I'll write it, but it needs more tits.
Looney Sez: AD, okay, I'll write it, but it needs more tits.
I knew I was making a mistake going with Paris.
- AD -
Don't bears have, like, six or eight tits, anyway???
I was going to post about this also, Gek but once I wrote the word "fuckhead" I ran out of things to say.