Now don't get me wrong: I'm all for stomping out wanton, pointless cruelty, both to animals and humans. But where does PETA get off telling people that their cultural norms are horribly wrong and evil? As Atara mentioned in the previous comment, some cultures look down on us as heathens and lunatics because we think a nice chunk of prime rib and a fine wine is a good way to celebrate a wedding anniversary.
We have videos shown in schools across the US for "educational purposes" that quite graphically depict things like child birth via C-section, drug use, and (yes) how cows go from mooing to being a piece of jerkey. In my opinion, these are all equally horrible things to witness. Why is this so much different, aside from the aforementioned "but it's a cute and fuzzy creature!" factor?
Do I think this video should have been made? Not particularly, but at the same time I'm not going to tell somebody s/he doesn't have the right to make or show the video. Free speech and all that (which is rapidly becoming less and less "free" these days).
Now don't get me wrong: I'm all for stomping out wanton, pointless cruelty, both to animals and humans. But where does PETA get off telling people that their cultural norms are horribly wrong and evil? As Atara mentioned in the previous comment, some cultures look down on us as heathens and lunatics because we think a nice chunk of prime rib and a fine wine is a good way to celebrate a wedding anniversary.
We have videos shown in schools across the US for "educational purposes" that quite graphically depict things like child birth via C-section, drug use, and (yes) how cows go from mooing to being a piece of jerkey. In my opinion, these are all equally horrible things to witness. Why is this so much different, aside from the aforementioned "but it's a cute and fuzzy creature!" factor?
Do I think this video should have been made? Not particularly, but at the same time I'm not going to tell somebody s/he doesn't have the right to make or show the video. Free speech and all that (which is rapidly becoming less and less "free" these days).
-Feren
"We use them for divine retribution."