Why can't we all just get along (with wolves)?

If you've ever wondered if there are simultaneous parallel universes, here's more evidence.

On one hand, you've got this thoughtful writing about wolves published by Swans Commentary. (Scroll down if you go to the link.) It's one of the calmer writings I've seen on wolves lately.

On the other hand, you've got the fear-mongers calling out activists who work on wolf issues by name and insisting that they are, "Anti-human, anti-children, pro-wolf/dog, and unabashedly proud of it," and then adding, "Those are some of the faces of evil in our society today." I won't honor that website with a link from here- just trust me, dear reader: that type of hostility and hyperbole exists aplenty.

Thus, one author is encouraging us to look for the commonality of our humanity, the other, providing a malicious targeting of the very "Other" that the first author wishes to dispel notions of:

...We too have to do a very tough remodeling job on ourselves, do without our accustomed arrogance, feel a greater tolerance toward members of our own species, while at the same time standing tall in defense of principles.

Those principles include The Others, their lives, their existence on this earth, all of them, from Mexican wolves to the flower-loving fly. We might practice not only the art of tuning our ears to the eerie wail of the wolves, but to the words of our opponents, whether we meet them at the mall or on the Blue Range of the White Mountains on the Arizona-New Mexico border. Enough water under the bridge. It's time to make this revolutionary shift.

Full stop.