Does this person know that the primary reasons for people not feeding the bears are for the safety and health of the bears?
Yes, there’s an aspect of, “The bears may become used to humans and lose their natural wariness, which can make encounters with them dangerous for both humans and bears,” (spoiler: The bear almost always ends up being shot and killed by someone, usually the DNR, when it starts spending too much time around human houses or, worse, injures or kills someone or their pets) but the bigger aspect is that people often feed bears (and other wild animals, around here it’s deer) food that is extremely unhealthy for the bears so you end up with obese, unhealthy bears.
Yeah, North American bears are omnivorous with some leaning more toward carnivore than omnivore, but people food? That’s not good for bears.
Bears are also wild animals (bonus round: North American bear species also not communal or social wild animals outside of mothers with cubs or breeding, where as people are social/communal animals), and when wild animals lose their natural wariness of humans or, worse, start to see areas with human populations as a source for food, it becomes dangerous for both bears and humans as the bears will get pretty destructive tearing apart trash bins, bird feeders, breaking into garages or houses, etc…to get food because they’ve learned easy to get food is there and it’s way, way easier than having to forage.
The implication here is that providing other humans with food and shelter will somehow make them…unhealthy and dangerously violent toward…other…humans. Somehow. Maybe this person thinks poor and homeless people are just shaved bears trying to trick the rest of us? IDK.
Also, people food is, y’know, for people so it’s generally okay to give it to other people.
Providing adequate food and shelter to other humans isn’t likely to make them go, “Well, gee, I can just walk right into ANYONE’S house and get these things!” because, apart from people who might have legitimate mental illness or behavioral problems, even poor and homeless people know that’s a complete social taboo in nearly every society because, surprise, they’re the same species of animal and are usually pretty knowledgeable about how human social behaviors work.
@optimistic-pessimisms Poor people and homeless people aren’t a different species of animal you fuckin’ weirdo.
You, on the other hand, I’m not so sure about, because your comment reads like something a bitter bear who finally figured out what those ‘Do Not Feed The Bears’ signs said might write in that it makes no sense at all, logical or otherwise.
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