1/17/21 How Do We Become So Different?

     Sometimes, I end up on weird people's content on TikTok and I have a hard time understanding how they develop such a warped view of things.  Yesterday, I landed on one where this young lady described an event from her childhood in which her folks took her and her cousins to Sea World.  She described it as a thing that her dad would do on occasion, going on little trips, but since she didn't have money, she spent the day stealing all sorts of nick-knacks.  Her mom, who I didn't understand why she didn't go asked where she got all her stuff and she just said "I took it".  Her dad taught her a lesson the next day by taking her back, 10 hours round trip, to return everything.  Instead of leaving it at that, and that would have been good, she added that she learned her mom was a snitch and she would just not tell her anything in the future.  If this was a joke, then fine, it went over my head, but then she added that later she would go on to be involved in an armed robbery.

    As I am writing this, maybe it was all a joke, but in the comments section, some religious lady wrote and admonished her, but this girl had no shame and went after the lady in the comments section about "you don't know me, you don't know what I have been through."  She was all proud of herself because the lady had then deleted her account or something.  A lot of people then started coming to her rescue saying it is cool that she stole from Sea World, they mistreat their employees and the animals.  Because they steal the animals from nature and keep them in cages, it is alright if you feel compelled to steal from their stores, you are just doing to them what they have done to those animals.

    I felt dirty after, like stupid had rubbed off on me for being in that comment section.  If not for the Sea Worlds and different zoos, 95% of people would never see orcas, or elephants, or any of the other animals.  I know it isn't the same as being free, but these handful of orcas, Shamu, Mamu and the rest of them provide us with knowledge we wouldn't have for the ones out in the wild.  People donate to animal causes because they are introduced to so many of these wild animals by seeing them in zoos and aquariums.  I really hate stupid and ignorant people, they really make it hard to have intelligent conversations.  And no amount of excuses changes the fact that the girl telling the story was in the wrong, but if she has graduated up to armed robbery, she must be doing just great in life, keep cheering her on, geniuses.