The series was briefly taken off the air and returned with a disclaimer reading: ‘Bear Grylls and the crew receive support when they are in potentially life threatening situations, as required by health and safety regulations. He filmed 75 one-hour shows for Man vs Wild, and was often filmed eating all sorts of creepy crawlies and drinking his own urine for survival. Grylls was approached by Discovery Channel after executives saw his TV series on Channel Four called Escape to the Legion. He then served for three years with the British Special Air Service.ĭuring his service time, a free-fall parachute accident left him with a broken back. It's time to put down the rock and let the snake alone.Grylls was taught to climb by his late father on the Isle of Wight, and became the youngest ever person to successfully scale Mt Everest at 23. The irony is that if the aliens really were superior, they would probably be peaceable and friendly. If we think might-makes-right is a fair ethic, then we can have no legitimate objection to a "superior" race of aliens arriving on earth to torture and kill us. Quite aside from the shallowness of viewing nature as cruel (she can be, but she is routinely not so, and wild animals don't spend their days cowering in fear), even if she were it wouldn't give us license to follow suit. What other animal conducts harmful experiments on other creatures before killing them? Only us. But how many species do you know that cage others and kill them before they grow to be adults, as we do to most of the animals destined for our dinner plates. I believe a major reason why we tout cruel nature is that it absolves us of guilt for being cruel ourselves If nature is cruel and we are just another part of nature, then surely it is natural and defensible to be cruel, so the thinking goes.
Why do we believe that wild nature is so cruel, harsh and dangerous? Why is nature, when viewed through our cultured lens, seen as red in tooth and claw, a survival of the fittest? If it's such a dog-eat-dog world out there, then why, asks biologist Marc Bekoff, don't we see dogs eating other dogs?
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