This rhino is well aware of the evidence. He knows about the studies. He knows about the damage it would cause to both the ecosystem. He knows it’s unnecessary. He knows that it’ll reduce work opportunities. He knows it’ll cost so much his children may starve to death.
But you see, if they don’t build the wall, he’ll have to admit that he was wrong, and that’s just unacceptable.
Gorilla thinking about the fact that people can “calm down” and people can “clam up”, suspecting that someone made a typo and now we’re all stuck with it.
Cheetah that, while researching dive companies, found one that does both snorkeling adventures and ash-scattering memorial services … and that hopes the two activities are not combined.
Rhinoceros realizing that if life begins at conception, pauses at birth and doesn’t begin again until 40, presuming one has gained enough personal wealth and power to drive personal and political change for those who spout trite adages about aging, that a great many things in the human world start to make sense.