It all comes down to trust....

[lance gt]

you have to wonder what if......http://video.ca.msn.com/watch/video...-pounds-on-glass/2jvsng0t?from=en-ca-infopane

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Fear of something is a learned trait. You have to be taught or through experience, learn to fear something before it would have a meaning to you. The baby doesn't fear the lion because it hasn't been taught to fear it and Dad being the idiot that he is, is tell the child to say 'here kitty, kitty, kitty' thus re-enforcing that there should be no fear of this thing behind the glass.

Or maybe the kid just knows that the lion can't get through that glass...doubtful.

 

[autoplot]

The baby doesn't fear the lion because it hasn't been taught to fear it and Dad being the idiot that he is, is tell the child to say 'here kitty, kitty, kitty' thus re-enforcing that there should be no fear of this thing behind the glass.

Yeah, that kid's going to be in real trouble when he meets a random lion on the street.

 

[TxRad]

Yeah, that kid's going to be in real trouble when he meets a random lion on the street.

Never say never

In the early fifties my grandfather was a waked from an afternoon nap by a loin tearing the screen door off the front of his house. He killed the lion with a twelve gauge shotgun and two loads of 00 buckshot.

The Lion had escaped from a circus set up in the fairgrounds several blocks away.

 

[autoplot]

Never say never

In the early fifties my grandfather was a waked from an afternoon nap by a loin tearing the screen door off the front of his house. He killed the lion with a twelve gauge shotgun and two loads of 00 buckshot.

The Lion had escaped from a circus set up in the fairgrounds several blocks away.

I don't think that baby's going to be very good with a shotgun.

 

[lance gt]

I wonder when the baby is older, if he/she visits a zoo and has a flashback or has/hasn't any fear of lions.

 

[TxRad]

I wonder when the baby is older, if he/she visits a zoo and has a flashback or has/hasn't any fear of lions.

Where and how did you learn to fear lions? It's not like they are running around on this continent.

 

[lance gt]

Where and how did you learn to fear lions? It's not like they are running around on this continent.

People fear a great many things and mostly it's imagined fear. There was no direct contact or association, when they were young, just the word of others fears, sparking the same in them.

When my son was 4-5 yrs old, he had no fear of insects of any kind. His dipshit mother filled him with her fear of bees and anything that buzzes, now he has that same fear. I show him there's nothing to fear, by putting my hand in and around plants that have bees buzzing around and no incidents occur. His fear is far stronger than the reality I've shown him and he won't believe it.

They thought gorillas were blood-thirty man killing beasts, until they studied them in the 60's and disproved every notion they had about them. People still fear them, even though they've been shown to have a loving and caring social structure like humans and videos of them caring for tiny kittens with a gentleness unimaginable before.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

People fear a great many things and mostly it's imagined fear. There was no direct contact or association, when they were young, just the word of others fears, sparking the same in them.

When my son was 4-5 yrs old, he had no fear of insects of any kind. His dipshit mother filled him with her fear of bees and anything that buzzes, now he has that same fear. I show him there's nothing to fear, by putting my hand in and around plants that have bees buzzing around and no incidents occur. His fear is far stronger than the reality I've shown him and he won't believe it.

They thought gorillas were blood-thirty man killing beasts, until they studied them in the 60's and disproved every notion they had about them. People still fear them, even though they've been shown to have a loving and caring social structure like humans and videos of them caring for tiny kittens with a gentleness unimaginable before.

And then there is the opposite effect going on, and that can be even more dangerous.

We are taught to love chimps, they're so cute! they're like little humans! They leave out the fact that Chimps have been known to commit murder, rape, and even perform RITUALISTIC CANNIBALISM.

Dolphins are even worse! We leave out the gang wars where they go out of their way to kill closely-related cousins of theirs, like porpoises. Or how about the fact that more often then not, they will ignore a swimming human, or even punch them repeatedly with their nose.

So there is installing unnecessary fear, and then there is giving a false sense of security.

 

[lance gt]

And then there is the opposite effect going on, and that can be even more dangerous.

We are taught to love chimps, they're so cute! they're like little humans! They leave out the fact that Chimps have been known to commit murder, rape, and even perform RITUALISTIC CANNIBALISM.

Dolphins are even worse! We leave out the gang wars where they go out of their way to kill closely-related cousins of theirs, like porpoises. Or how about the fact that more often then not, they will ignore a swimming human, or even punch them repeatedly with their nose.

So there is installing unnecessary fear, and then there is giving a false sense of security.

The other interesting thing about dolphins I found out, is that they are the only other mammal, other than man, to have sex, because it's fun and not just doing it for reproduction of the species. Male dolphins have been known to try and sexually assault female swimmers as well. Bad dolphins!! I guess they don't have the beastiality clause in effect, lmao

 

[The_Young_Swell]

I would call the child in the video neither trusting nor fearless -- merely oblivious.

And I, myself, don’t fear lions, but were I to learn there was one nearby I would do my utmost to keep out of its way. Just as I would with any wild carnivore and even some of the more belligerent and/or large herbivores such as bulls and elephants. That's only common prudence.

 

[autoplot]

Where and how did you learn to fear lions? It's not like they are running around on this continent.

Maybe he lived close to a circus.

 

[jomar]

Yeah, Mom was pretty trusting the glass would hold.

 

[lance gt]

I would call the child in the video neither trusting nor fearless -- merely oblivious.

And I, myself, don’t fear lions, but were I to learn there was one nearby I would do my utmost to keep out of its way. Just as I would with any wild carnivore and even some of the more belligerent and/or large herbivores such as bulls and elephants. That's only common prudence.

I agree, but I was refering to the trust the parent was putting in the glass panel. That lion finding a way past it, would certainly have ended in tragedy. It all comes down to trust and that falls on the people who made the panel and the ones who installed it. Man makes mistakes.

 

[lovecraft68]

And then there is the opposite effect going on, and that can be even more dangerous.

We are taught to love chimps, they're so cute! they're like little humans! They leave out the fact that Chimps have been known to commit murder, rape, and even perform RITUALISTIC CANNIBALISM.

Dolphins are even worse! We leave out the gang wars where they go out of their way to kill closely-related cousins of theirs, like porpoises. Or how about the fact that more often then not, they will ignore a swimming human, or even punch them repeatedly with their nose.

So there is installing unnecessary fear, and then there is giving a false sense of security.

I have no idea where it came from, but I have a pathological hatred for monkeys. There is nothing cute about them and if one was ever within range I would blow its fucking head off.

 

[estragon]

Be careful of loins that come within range. They may not all belong to trustworthy individuals.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Be careful of loins that come within range. They may not all belong to trustworthy individuals.

Wise words.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

I have no idea where it came from, but I have a pathological hatred for monkeys. There is nothing cute about them and if one was ever within range I would blow its fucking head off.

I was speaking more of apes, but I understand.

As far as monkeys, I fucking love the little dudes with the mustaches

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4133/5022139704_011ae0ecf9_z.jpg

The rest I could take or leave

 

[TxRad]

I was speaking more of apes, but I understand.

As far as monkeys, I fucking love the little dudes with the mustaches

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4133/5022139704_011ae0ecf9_z.jpg

The rest I could take or leave

Where did you get my baby picture?