[andrewflnr]

The liberty is in not being forcibly relocated. Try to focus.

Note how far the question has already drifted from human zoos, to just whether it's good to contact people or not. This is not an accident. It's because the human zoo comparison was never defensible; it was trivial to force you to move the goalposts.

[scotty79]

So if you put cages over the animals in the jungle that's not a zoo because they never got relocated?

[andrewflnr]

Ha, fair point, sort of. Dropping a cage on someone in situ is a very specific form of liberty denial that doesn't really have a name because no one does it.

[lazide]

Who is putting cages over anyone? And where did you get that idea?

Preserves don’t do that either.

[scotty79]

Nobody. I'm just trying to understand what makes a zoo, a zoo.

My intuition is more about not forcibly relocating but putting boundaries so that movement is restricted and safe observations can be performed for prolonged time.

[lazide]

Why is that important to you?

[scotty79]

I just like to know what words mean.