Why should we save the polar bears?
At least, that’s what Darwinists tell us. In fact, if you think hard about it, animal conservation should actually be anathema to the Darwin-loving liberal agenda, which holds up evolution – and not altruistic compassion – as the final word on the survival of a species.
Sure, it’s possible that we’re crowding out the polar bear – but aren’t we animals, too? And don’t animals sometimes crowd each other out? Isn’t it entirely possible that the polar bear is simply going extinct, like countless species before it?
The crass and sometimes violent coming and going of species proves evolution’s central logic. So why, then, do polar bear activists insist that another species – that would be us – tamper with Darwin’s grand design and swoop in to save an animal that simply wasn’t fit enough to make it in the cutthroat world of biological survival?









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Well, if it comes down to choosing between S.E.Cupp and Polar Bears…I need a good rug.
ronsfi on December 22, 2010 at 9:02 PM
Ditto with panda bears – both obsolete.
OldEnglish on December 22, 2010 at 9:05 PM
Well, first of all, they are in no danger anyway, the numbers have spiked recently.
Second of all, why not, if we can afford to. But conservationism should be more like a national hobby than a mandate to live in mud huts lest we befoul the environment.
Mord on December 22, 2010 at 9:06 PM
Besides, we are too busy subsidizing Liberalisim to afford the care and feeding of animals 99% of the world will never see.
Mord on December 22, 2010 at 9:08 PM
Because in their arrogance the left thinks that Utopia can be brought about by mankind.
darwin-t on December 22, 2010 at 9:10 PM
They’re furry and sort of anthropomorphic, so we have an instinctive sympathy for them. There’s really no rational reason for saving them, though. Not sure what point she’s trying to make about Darwinism, which she obnoxiously conflates with social Darwinism (then applies it to bears).
RightOFLeft on December 22, 2010 at 9:15 PM
This has always been one of my objections with Gaea-worshipers. They want humans to save everything from extinction (Some want humans to go extinct.), and preach that nature does everything properly, but don’t seem to accept the idea that nature produced human beings. We’re doing what comes naturally for our species.
It isn’t that they want to protect nature. It’s that they want to destroy freedom and property rights.
flataffect on December 22, 2010 at 9:16 PM
I didn’t think it was possible to be more in love with S.E. Cupp but she just proved me wrong!
This is a brilliant piece of writing.
gary4205 on December 22, 2010 at 10:12 PM
So that I can mural you laying upon the plushy bear skin with your hot witty smile.
Just makes a nice photo op with you among the Polar Bear while Annoying our liberals do gooders. Ha
hawkman on December 22, 2010 at 10:13 PM
http://video.adultswim.com/the-venture-bros/kill-the-bear.html
Asher on December 22, 2010 at 10:24 PM
I generally like S.E. but I don’t here. I wouldn’t want to live in a world in which the only wild animals are squirrels, flies, and whatever else can live in city parks. If helping out the polar bears doesn’t place undue hardship on our species (which it clearly doesn’t), then why not?
WisCon on December 22, 2010 at 10:33 PM
The natural value to a polar bear is curbing the population of a few other species. Outside of that they occasionally eat a few idiot nature lovers.
mad scientist on December 22, 2010 at 10:58 PM
I heard S.E. Cupp interviewed once on local radio, where you can’t see her, of course. For a moment, I thought the host was interviewing a high school girl. She’s an airhead.
Emperor Norton on December 22, 2010 at 11:19 PM
Why should we save the polar bears?
Because they make great rugs to make sex on.
Borat
esnap on December 23, 2010 at 12:34 AM
Polar bears aren’t going extinct. What the hell are you talking about, Sarah?
Ronnie on December 23, 2010 at 1:40 AM
Yes.I’m an animal and you are an animal. Now get down on all fours, doggy. Oh and Merry Christmas, oops….
P. Monk on December 23, 2010 at 6:32 AM
Libs cherry pick Darwinism. They trumpet evolution, while sweeping survival of fittest under the rug. They worship at the altar of ‘diversity’, while willfully ignoring that diversity without competition and survival of fittest is a meaningless if not counterproductive condition.
petefrt on December 23, 2010 at 7:11 AM
we should save polar bears so that there is at least one single solitary bear that will stealthily sneak ashore somewhere near San Diego and summarily rip algore to shreds at his palatial estate and it will be captured and posted on youtube. The equal and unmitigated horror of the spectacle will be that the dismemberment will come under the glare of incandescent light bulbs.
Edisonian justice.
ted c on December 23, 2010 at 8:05 AM
Well, if it comes down to choosing between S.E.Cupp and Polar Bears…I need a good rug. ronsfi on December 22, 2010 at 9:02 PM
S.E.Cupp on a bear rug is all I want for Christmas Santa!!!
Dread Pirate Roberts VI on December 23, 2010 at 8:09 AM
What is proposed to “help out” is a cap/tax scheme under which then-candidate Obama said “energy prices will necessarily skyrocket”.
Sounds like an undue hardship to me.
The Monster on December 23, 2010 at 9:15 AM
Libs cherry pick Darwinism. They trumpet evolution, while sweeping survival of fittest under the rug. They worship at the altar of ‘diversity’, while willfully ignoring that diversity without competition and survival of fittest is a meaningless if not counterproductive condition.
petefrt on December 23, 2010 at 7:11 AM
Exactly, all Cupp is doing here is taking the logic of evolutionary naturalism to its conclusion. If humanity -isn’t- a privileged species, it also is not an alien one either. In other words, a skyscraper is just as “natural” as a beaver dam or an eagle’s nest. Enviro-whackos are fallaciously stealing the concept of the Fall of Man and grafting onto their Gaia-worship.
ebrown2 on December 23, 2010 at 9:21 AM
B-b-b-b-but, they’re so cute!/
Ignorant Mensan on December 23, 2010 at 9:30 AM