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this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2023
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Yeah just sad
Poor thing
Fucking tragic..
"conscripted" is an interesting choice of words. Why'd you go with that one?
Because he's part of the war effort now o7
The elephant was taken from a civilian zoo and pressed into service. 'Conscripted' seemed appropriate.
Do we know if it a German zoo? Or was it a Belgian or Russian zoo?
Hamburg Zoo, I believe!
OK, so the German Empire probably had some law or policy in place for the requisitioning of civilian animals.
I am tempted to make a joke about the elephant being a collaborator if it had not been German. But according to wikipedia:
In modern times, it is considered in most criminal justice systems that non-human animals lack moral agency and so cannot be held culpable for an act.
Humans are the worst