[quote=“Mr He”]Hypocrites all.
Pigs are most likely not more stupid than the average whale. Should we stop eating them?
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I don’t eat meat, and yeah, I believe that it would be great if everyone could do that too. But, I know that that’s unlikely to happen within the next thousand years or so, so… It’s up to the individual, and I’m not gonna judge, I’m just gonna try and do what I feel is right.
And TainanCowboy, “take it down a notch”? You’re the one who started with the patronising comments, man (ie, referring to “Flipper”, telling me to save my empathy for humans, that “Flipper” would eat me in a minute… Come on, do you think I’m a child?) and then go on to say that my taking offence at this is just “my interpretation” of your comments? It seemed pretty blatant to me, but whatever, I’ll let that slide.
By the way, I highly doubt that it is scientifically feasible for a dolphin to ever eye a human as prey. Maybe a killer whale, yeah, but a dolphin’s teeth are interlocking peg-type teeth that are really only suitable for holding fish, before they are swallowed whole. Dolphins don’t bite or chew their prey. And since their diet consists almost entirely of fish, supplemented by things like squid, there would be no reason to attack a human (which is vastly different in proportion, dimensions etc to most fish). A killer whale, however, preys on seals/sealions, so it may be possible that it would eat a similarly sized human.
But anyway, to apply the logic that we shouldn’t have empathy for something which would attack us or eat us is pretty ridiculous anyway. Should we not worry about protecting tigers then? And how many times have you heard of dogs attacking and killing people/children? Yet there are all of these people here dedicating their time and money to a helping a species (ie dogs, stray dogs in Taiwan) that are “potential human-killers”. I’m sure these people don’t think that that kind of logic is amusing.
ANYWAY, science aside, who said I was sentimentalizing dolphins? You just made the assumption, based on the fact that I had stated that it was terrible to be killing them because they are so intelligent. I didn’t say cute, playful, fun, etc.
I’m glad that you think we have a responsibility to safeguard the creatures of this planet, and that you don’t advocate whaling or dolphin hunting. That’s the sort of attitude which needs to be promoted around here.
Peace.
