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PETA is remarkably adept at drawing attention to animal treatment.
Black people weren't bred in farms for mass-slavery, so I fail to see the comparison to the animals I eat.
animals are tastey good. and being omnivores that's kinda what we do.
why does PETA still exist.
to offend enough people that eventually, after being disgusted by how stupid they are, some people will stop and think about how they treat animals just a little bit more than they did before.
Actually i read somewhere that black people back then WERE farm bred to be sold...its in a book somewhere not endorsed by PETA or anything. I forget it was like..2-3 years ago since i read that but it stood out to me.
In any case i hope that they uphold their cause, however in many ways...much more...logical?
PETA's cause, from what it seems, is the same as any other collectivist ideals: that humans, having the ability of reason, ideals, and concepts of times and whatnot, are "animals, too", and have to apologize for being rational human beings - by putting ourselves on the same level of cows, dogs, pigs, and goats. In name, they seem to support the ethical treatment of animals - and really, who is pro-inhumane treatment? However, in practice, they are for the destruction of freedom on the basis of the ridiculous practice of "animal rights". That implies that animals have inalienable rights that we cannot infringe, which include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The right to life - we should sooner starve than kill a cow. Liberty - we should let the animals roam the streets, to be at their mercy, rather than domesticate them or otherwise protect ourselves from them. The pursuit of happiness - becuase although animals are unable to experience complex emotions such as what real happiness is, we must respect their right to do so, much in the same way I have the right to breathe underwater - if I ever gain the capacity to do so - and must be treated as if I can.
Sorry if I sound dogmatic, but this is bordering ridiculous.
of course PETA has ridiculous stances, but that's the point. It's easy to ignore a well-reasoned argument, but it's not easy to ignore a loudly proclaimed and ridiculous hyperbole. PETA wants people to think about what it means to treat animals in various ways. They feel that people thinking about animal treatment in any way whatsoever will be good for animal rights, and when they do something or say something ridiculous, a lot of people start thinking. Of course they say they are ridiculously dogmatic, and I'm sure some people are, but it's a conscious affectation.
I am pretty much only in agreement with them that no life is any more or less significant than another including different species. But yeah i agree pretty much that they go well beyond what they were intended to(i think). Extremists of PETA or the other side is not that great. Extremists in every way is bad actually.
That's wrong. Thats the most racist and animal crueltyI've ever seen. And for the topic. Yes they do. Animals earn respect...
~Crash
Somehow, I don't think that's really a great plan, no matter how much seems to work.Quote:
Originally Posted by eestlinc
Whose wrong, again? I don't understand what you're talking about.Quote:
Originally Posted by crash26821That's wrong. Thats the most racist and animal cruelty
~Crash
I'msorry but there are more animal protection laws thantheir are child protection laws and wtf.
"Do animals need to be treated as Blacks." Bah screw them ..This is how the world view us. We're blacks and we could be worse ...we can be africans. IF the person was black who wrote this. He or she needs to hang themselves now.
Bad analogy thus bad article.
I do not think its a bad analogy because people back at the time really did think that way. Course you are fine to disagree.
Anyone who thinks this article is racist has obviously not understood its purpose. I partly agree with the article, but I just don't care enough to act differently.
This reminds me of when a famous Finnish guy said "Stockholm is like a pile of crap. It doesn't get better just because it gets bigger." and everyone got really upset because he called our capital city "a pile of crap". People are generally too stupid to understand similes and even though they are a really efficient way of getting one's point across, they should often be avoided due to the general inability to understand them.
The people who did that to the animal...Quote:
Originally Posted by HachifusaWhose wrong, again? I don't understand what you're talking about.Quote:
Originally Posted by crash26821That's wrong. Thats the most racist and animal cruelty
~Crash
did what to what animal?
He's talking about the article.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cloud No.9
It's not how I would go about working for change, but it does seem to be effective to some degree.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hachifusa
That article is unintentionally hilarious.
Hmmm I really don't like it with the racism and stuff and the slavement, I personally don't keep animals to do my bidding and like Ashley's ancestors went through all of that slavery crap in America, I've would've been one of those people that would help slaves escape (What do you call them?) Anyway I think slavery should be abolished in all forms.
I love PETA!! I wonder if they know that most vegetables that you eat are dead too? If you eat a fruit, you eat the birthright of a plant. I say we send all the PETA-types to Ethiopia for a year so maybe the wouldn't take such things as food for granted.
*sing it with me to the coca wheats song!*
Animal animals can't be beat!
There the red squishy, yummy, chewy meat!
To grow big and strong have lots of fun
eat animals everyone!
As for the article, sadly its all pretty much true. Yes, blacks were bred and hugely mistreated, but then again - who havn't we mistreated :)
bipper
edit by eest: see how more sense you make when you remove the typos? :moose:
this is what that stupid evalotion thing started, racism, comunisn and now this...its SICK!! :mad2: :mad2: :mad2:
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Originally Posted by Yu-Yevon
What?
hahahaha what the smurf?Quote:
Originally Posted by Yu-Yevon
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Originally Posted by Yu-Yevon
W-T-F-L-O-L-O-M-G-Roffel :x
haha sorry its amusing..
ok, so moving on...
We should hypnotize Bush into thinking that PETA organizations are actually terrorist groups.
Wait, they aren't?Quote:
We should hypnotize Bush into thinking that PETA organizations are actually terrorist groups.
Seriously though, I've always intensely disliked the PETA, their actions are extremely facist and not exactly sensible, to say the least.
I didn't see anything in that article that reveals what they do, in fact, taste like.
…I’m not sick, just curious…
But animals don't have feelings.
Are you serious?
No one is really capable IMO to say they dont, they dont necessarily have to have the same types or even the same way of expressing feelings to have them. The only problem is we dont know what they are saying, hence people thinking they are the higher evolutioned species say they dont. Yet i still feel that its unconfirmed for sure if they do or dont. I tend to believe they do however.
I've never eaten a black dude, or any other dude or dudette for that matter, but I have the feeling chicken tastes better.
Hmm, i have an idea: Lets beat the hell out of a whole load of animals, until one protests!Quote:
Originally Posted by lionx
And if they don't..well..it wouldn't be a day wasted....
Ok, i start with Dravaris!
PETA are a bunch of wankers.
Black people taste like pork, trust me.
I am both annoyed and turned on by that statement…Quote:
Originally Posted by lionx
When animals run - would that count as objecting?
I do agree that animals have feelings and such - but so does my stomach.
Bipper
Since Bush is so adept at neutralizing terrorist groups...Quote:
Originally Posted by SomethingBig
Dang it throney! Read between the lines -- its obvious they taste like chicken!Quote:
I didn't see anything in that article that reveals what they do, in fact, taste like.
…I’m not sick, just curious…
He is great at jailing the political figurehead of any harboring country - does this mean he may take himself out...?Quote:
Since Bush is so adept at neutralizing terrorist groups...
Dammit, I am enlisting!
Bipper
Aww yeah....lolwww x)Quote:
He is great at jailing the political figurehead of any harboring country - does this mean he may take himself out...?
Dammit, I am enlisting!
now there's an idea with merit.Quote:
I love PETA!! I wonder if they know that most vegetables that you eat are dead too? If you eat a fruit, you eat the birthright of a plant. I say we send all the PETA-types to Ethiopia for a year so maybe the wouldn't take such things as food for granted.
I don't see where PETA is any worse than obsessive religious groups, but yet no one will shutup about "OMG PETA IS INSANE AND DUMB FOR DEFENDING TEH ANIMALZ RIGHTS LOLZ!11" but I don't hear anyone griping about say, the Westborough Baptist Church nearly as much.
Everyone here has already forgotten the video about the seals being skinned alive? That is the sort of stuff that PETA is trying to stop and if it has a weird way of going about it so that you would stop and pay attention...so be it. I'm all for it and I support them fully.
I've stated how I feel about PETA too many times. So, in summary: :down:
There's a difference between the ability to feel emotions and the ability to form logical trains of thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by ThroneofDravaris
I'm all for [humane treatment of animals] and I support [those who support that] fully.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leeza
PETA, however, are just a bunch of idiots. I rather like a "human-oriented" world.
By obsessive religious groups, do you mean cults and people who have sacrifices for their gods/deities?Quote:
Originally Posted by DMKA
For the record, we've known that the Baptists have been crazy for years. PETA is newer.