I've been casually following the noise over the polar bear cub in Germany. I'm disgusted at the contempt the activist shows for the very thing he claims to support.
The moment we took the animals out of the wild and put them under our care, they became our responsibility. We are ethically obligated to provide the best standard of care we can to these animals, and until we have such a manner by which we can ask the bear if it wants to live or not, we do not have the right to terminate its life.
For the sake of the argument, let's take the above article, and pretend that Knut is a human baby, reading the following passage thinking of a baby.
Knut, who is more commonly known as "Cute Knut", was born in December, and along with his brother, was ignored by his alcoholic single mother; Knut's brother would not survive.
Should we terminate the life of every human baby that was born to an irresponsible mother?
Thumbs down for the first person that points out I eat meat.