Why Do We Go to the Zoo? by Garrett Erik A.;

Author:Garrett, Erik A.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

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The final area of possible motivation I want to mention are outliers. Personally I have not had experience with either of these motivations, nor have I interviewed visitors who admitted to such beliefs. The two behaviors I want to mention are sadism and suicide. In his essay, “Through a frame darkly: A phenomenological critique of zoos,” Bernard E. Rollin talks about being a “seriously depressed and physically debilitated” graduate student who thought he was visiting the Bronx Zoo to cheer himself up by seeing the animals. However, his later assessment was,

I was drawn to the zoo in my darkest moments, I realized that what was going on psychologically was nothing like being made happy. It was, rather, more like gloating over the plight of some beings who were far worse off than I was. . . . [T]he animals were eternally trapped, without even hope of escape. What I thought of as joy was thus better characterized as spite. I understood my situation; however bad it was, I could hope and even anticipate better times. The animals, however, were perpetually doomed to their suffering, with no escape, no hope, no anticipation.[27]

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