If It Worked For the Nazis and Soviets, Why Not PETA?

New PETA campaign hopes to turn children against their carnivorous parents.

Featuring a gory comic called Your Daddy Kills Animals!

Best bit: In an effort to convince people that fish are intelligent, PETA asserts that fish use tools.

Fish.

Using tools.

Like you saw in the acclaimed documentary Finding Nemo.

We all know from Blade Runner that having an insufficient empathy for animals is the sign of sociopathy and/or being an android. But it's also a mental disorder to be this concerned about animals. It shows some kind of defect in human emotional development. I know when I was a kid I found people boring and preferred cartoons and movies about animals. I think these PETA folks are in the same infantile state of development.

Consider all this insane energy that could be used helping people. Children starving. People dying of diseases eradicated in the westernized world for lack of immunization. Children used as prostitutes. Women abducted into prostitution. People being blown up by unmarked landmines. War. Famine. Pestillence. Human death.

Instead these people spend their time trying to save flounder.

There's a fundamental mental defect there. The empathy that should be directed towards human beings is instead directed almost exclusively towards dumb (yes, dumb) animals. I can't help but think that that stage of emotional development, when four year olds stop caring exclusively about puppies and kittens and ponies and unicorns and start caring about people, just sort of passed the PETA folk by.

Thanks to Alicia.

posted by Ace at 11:36 PM

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