Comments on: PETA – ALL Animals Must be Protected http://depletedcranium.com/peta-all-animals-must-be-protected/ Bad Science And Scary Science Wed, 23 May 2012 14:04:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: DV82XL http://depletedcranium.com/peta-all-animals-must-be-protected/comment-page-1/#comment-22998 DV82XL Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:36:36 +0000 http://depletedcranium.com/?p=159#comment-22998 PETA's philosophy is based on an unspoken dualism where it's OK for a predator to kill its prey, but immoral for a man to do the same. This can only come from a belief that Man is somehow apart from nature, which is central to all Abramic faiths. PETA’s philosophy is based on an unspoken dualism where it’s OK for a predator to kill its prey, but immoral for a man to do the same. This can only come from a belief that Man is somehow apart from nature, which is central to all Abramic faiths.

]]> By: Shafe http://depletedcranium.com/peta-all-animals-must-be-protected/comment-page-1/#comment-22985 Shafe Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:31:27 +0000 http://depletedcranium.com/?p=159#comment-22985 [quote]But when one talks about such insect behavior it’s rarely in the context of a single individual, but rather of a large group. “Swarm intelligence” is not intelligence as we know it, but has more to do with the idea that a group of “dumb” individuals governed by a few very simple rules and mechanisms can end interacting in a manner which produces adaptable and complex behaviors as a whole.[/quote] The cells of your body can be viewed as individual single-celled animals working in communistic cooperation for the good of the greater being (you.) Then each cell could be treated as an insect in a colony or hive and could be regarded just as highly as an ant or termite. Think of that while your very existence depends upon the mass murder of untold millions of those tireless proletariat cells on a daily basis. How do you sleep at night?

But when one talks about such insect behavior it’s rarely in the context of a single individual, but rather of a large group. “Swarm intelligence” is not intelligence as we know it, but has more to do with the idea that a group of “dumb” individuals governed by a few very simple rules and mechanisms can end interacting in a manner which produces adaptable and complex behaviors as a whole.

The cells of your body can be viewed as individual single-celled animals working in communistic cooperation for the good of the greater being (you.) Then each cell could be treated as an insect in a colony or hive and could be regarded just as highly as an ant or termite. Think of that while your very existence depends upon the mass murder of untold millions of those tireless proletariat cells on a daily basis. How do you sleep at night?

]]> By: Alex B http://depletedcranium.com/peta-all-animals-must-be-protected/comment-page-1/#comment-15533 Alex B Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:08:53 +0000 http://depletedcranium.com/?p=159#comment-15533 I really couldn't agree more with your post. I love checking the PETA site to see what new and stupid things they are advocating, and out of curiosity, typed into Google whether or not they are opposed to killing insects. Your post popped up and made my day. I killed a spider and smiled just thinking about it I really couldn’t agree more with your post. I love checking the PETA site to see what new and stupid things they are advocating, and out of curiosity, typed into Google whether or not they are opposed to killing insects. Your post popped up and made my day. I killed a spider and smiled just thinking about it

]]> By: Depleted Cranium » Blog Archive » Fundies Say the Darndest Things! http://depletedcranium.com/peta-all-animals-must-be-protected/comment-page-1/#comment-1198 Depleted Cranium » Blog Archive » Fundies Say the Darndest Things! Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:59:52 +0000 http://depletedcranium.com/?p=159#comment-1198 [...] to PETA under the heading “Please Support Animal Rights.” For those who do not know, I’ve written about PETA before and generally do not find the organization to be any more logical or worthwhile than the most [...] [...] to PETA under the heading “Please Support Animal Rights.” For those who do not know, I’ve written about PETA before and generally do not find the organization to be any more logical or worthwhile than the most [...]

]]> By: Yael Dragwyla http://depletedcranium.com/peta-all-animals-must-be-protected/comment-page-1/#comment-438 Yael Dragwyla Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:04:22 +0000 http://depletedcranium.com/?p=159#comment-438 DV82XL -- you need to remember that, as is the case for so many similarly psychotic groups, the rank-and-file are True Believers in their cause, while the venal bastards in the organization, much fewer in number, are at the top, deciding policy. And it's the True Believers who are not only annoying, but downright dangerous. We had an incident here in Western Washington State involving a young man, a True Believer of that sort, who decided that "liberating" all the minks in the mink-ranches here would be a real great idea. So he broke into several mink ranches and ended up "liberating" something like 25,000 ranch mink, turning them loose into the wild in the middle of the night, with winter coming on. Those mink that didn't die of starvation or dehydration -- ranch mink haven't the faintest idea of how to live in the wild -- and didn't freeze to death ended up trashing the native wildlife here, killing thousands of wildfowl and small wild mammals and generally devastating the area. Way to go, jerk! Then there was that group back east that took animals from the pound with the promise to find them good homes, then euthanized them in the back of their van and tossed the bodies out behind a supermarket. Their excuse? "We have to protect the poor animals!" As a friend of mine said, this was one time when the truly crazy members of PETA actually made the news -- normally they don't, and get kicked out of PETA because they *are* just too, too much even for PETA to take. At any rate, *most* of PETA's membership are more than a little crazy, though usually they stick to their marching orders from above. If you manage to corner them and force them to look at evidence that they're just being used by greedy superiors for the private goals of the latter, they'll just smile and say, "So what? We're *doing good!*" Well, they may be doing good, but only because the bastards at the top are doing well . . . Anyway, watch out for the guys at the bottom -- not only are there a *lot* more of them than the ones at the top, but they're mad, often dangerously so. DV82XL — you need to remember that, as is the case for so many similarly psychotic groups, the rank-and-file are True Believers in their cause, while the venal bastards in the organization, much fewer in number, are at the top, deciding policy. And it’s the True Believers who are not only annoying, but downright dangerous. We had an incident here in Western Washington State involving a young man, a True Believer of that sort, who decided that “liberating” all the minks in the mink-ranches here would be a real great idea. So he broke into several mink ranches and ended up “liberating” something like 25,000 ranch mink, turning them loose into the wild in the middle of the night, with winter coming on. Those mink that didn’t die of starvation or dehydration — ranch mink haven’t the faintest idea of how to live in the wild — and didn’t freeze to death ended up trashing the native wildlife here, killing thousands of wildfowl and small wild mammals and generally devastating the area. Way to go, jerk! Then there was that group back east that took animals from the pound with the promise to find them good homes, then euthanized them in the back of their van and tossed the bodies out behind a supermarket. Their excuse? “We have to protect the poor animals!” As a friend of mine said, this was one time when the truly crazy members of PETA actually made the news — normally they don’t, and get kicked out of PETA because they *are* just too, too much even for PETA to take. At any rate, *most* of PETA’s membership are more than a little crazy, though usually they stick to their marching orders from above. If you manage to corner them and force them to look at evidence that they’re just being used by greedy superiors for the private goals of the latter, they’ll just smile and say, “So what? We’re *doing good!*” Well, they may be doing good, but only because the bastards at the top are doing well . . . Anyway, watch out for the guys at the bottom — not only are there a *lot* more of them than the ones at the top, but they’re mad, often dangerously so.

]]> By: DV82XL http://depletedcranium.com/peta-all-animals-must-be-protected/comment-page-1/#comment-390 DV82XL Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:23:12 +0000 http://depletedcranium.com/?p=159#comment-390 The only thing that PETA (and other organizations of the same ilk) want to protect, is the revenue stream that their antics generate from the gullible. They, along with several other special interest groups have been hijacked by con artists. It's all just a secular riff on the 'give us money, or you will go to hell' fraud that organized religion as been playing for millenia. The only thing that PETA (and other organizations of the same ilk) want to protect, is the revenue stream that their antics generate from the gullible. They, along with several other special interest groups have been hijacked by con artists. It’s all just a secular riff on the ‘give us money, or you will go to hell’ fraud that organized religion as been playing for millenia.

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