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Originally Posted by bryantm3
they're feckin dogs. there's a genocide in darfur and they're worried about a bunch of dogs that are pampered better than most people are?
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I don't think that the existence of more horrendous acts should mean that you ignore the minor ones. If anything, I think the world would probably be a better place if people were able to focus on the larger picture, and not just one thing.
And yea, I agree with Deckard. The various breeders and what-not may say that they care about the animals in their custody but the long-term effects of their breeding practices will create future generations of animals with grotesque abnormalities. I think that if it was people on display that people would have a much different outlook on things like dog shows, horse races and other "exploitations" of animals. But since they're of lower cognition people dismiss it, apparently oblivious to the fact that most animals do indeed experience pain, terror, joy and depression just like people do. Apparently if you don't have vocal cords to say "Hey numbnuts, I'm in a lot of pain" then it must not be so.
Then again, I would put the intelligence of most people that do stuff like this for a living to be only slightly higher than the animals they care for, so I suppose that my expectations are lofty.
As for PETA -- battling extremism with extremism is never a good way to handle things. But then again, it made you pay attention.................... But understand this, and read it closely... the next time you watch a horse race and one of the thoroughbreds snaps its ankle, and they put it down on the track... if watching that kind of barbarism doesn't curdle your stomach, then nothing will. Years of selective breeding have caused thoroughbreds' ankles to become thin to the point to where they break really easily, and then its us, people, after the breeding process that makes them run so fucking hard that they snap their limbs. And this is all done for your enjoyment.
As for myself, I'm fine with the symbology deployed. Too many damn people got their heads stuck up American Idol's ass and Jessica Simpson's girth to notice all the crap that goes on in the world. If a tailored bedsheet wakes someone up, then fine.