Originally posted by: DaedalCipher
Originally posted by: thetonio
Once again? So I guess you are now an expert on Peta's public policy, and have once again graced us here at ATOT with the brilliantly synospized conclusions of a prodigy undiscovered? Or (and this is more likely) are you just now joining the inherently moronic caste out there that delights in spending days wasting the precious few nuerons unused by their brains in keeping their worthless bodies alive thinking of what they think of as clever-sounding barbs aimed at a legitimate organization whose creation they cannot fathom because of a brain not wired to think past shoot... grunt... kill
Quite simply put, I don't like an organization that throws out frivolous statements and launches absurd campaigns (such as the one I previously quoted) that are far from a constructive approach to the matter at hand with their only intention being to gain publicity.
Examples? How about distributing these flyers amongst school children:
http://grimthing.com/archives/2003/12/19/your-mommy-kills-animals/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10265078/
I have nothing wrong with having a love for fuzzy creatures, but the PETA statement I quoted earlier shouldn't have even been cited in the first place... it's only encouraging their behaviour.
Originally posted by: thetonio
?We are urging everyone to actively boycott ? not a word we use lightly ? anything from China given the bludgeoning killing of thousands of dogs,? PETA President Ingrid Newkirk said.
That's a frivolous statement? You think attempting to stop a needlessly cruel, barbaric practice through economic sanction, the only way likely to work in this day and age with a country as large as china, is
silly? How else is PETA supposed to fight back? Ask them politely? Invade? Man.
And your links do nothing to support your case, in my eyes. To wear fur and encourage the mass, and it is mass, slaughter of animals solely for the sake of fashion is the hight of idiocy. What's the point of it? So some douche next door or at the nightly dinner gathering will think you are more worthy of their attention simply because you have the resources to afford paying for someone else to kill an animal because you think wearing their treated skin makes you look "cooler"?
If mommy is stupid enough to think she is of more value more as a human being because she wears the fur of something the skitters across the ground in ever-dwindling numbers, junior is probably stupid enough that it
would take something as graphic as that flyer to get them to snap out of the fatigued synapse-caused daze they perpetually plod around in, pausing only to open their mouth for the next hand fed opportunity they will inevitably be given.
My point? People are stupid, and you frequently have to wave something in their faces for a long time for them to recognize what it is you are trying to show them. PETA fights an uphill battle daily against the ignorant bliss that so permeated this world, attempting to get people to
think. And so here I have attempted once more to show you what about your thinking is flawed, although I'll probably have to do it six or eight more times before you recognize what it is I am trying to show you.