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KappaKittyCat said it best. The value of animals in this culture has to do with people's attachment to them.
The South Carolina mascot is a gamecock. This is a male chicken. Male chickens are fried up every day in the campus cafeteria, and nobody minds.
But if somebody stole and ate the mascot, people would be furious, and rightly so. The community has a relationship with that particular animal. They know him, they see him, and they will miss him when he dies.
That's what makes this incident disgusting. It's not about killing a fish -- people do that every day -- and it's not about destroying $700 worth of property -- people do that every day, too.
It's about the fact that anybody with half a clue could have realized that many people WOULD take this loss personally. It shows a total lack of regard for how other people feel. Obviously this fish meant nothing to the eaters...but if the article is true, then it should have been obvious to everybody on that campus that it did mean a lot to others. And these guys didn't give a second thought to the fact that their classmates cared about this fish like a pet, and thus that it was not replaceable. They went ahead and had their fun and screw the consequences to anybody else.
That's what makes me sick.
Ivy
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