So what do you guys think of seal clubbing?
01-23-2011 12:58 PM
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01-23-2011 01:02 PM
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Oh and from wikipedia: | |
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01-23-2011 01:16 PM
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Whitecoats, which are newborns, aren't killed for their fur, anymore, but anti-sealers ignore that because the pictures make such great inflammatory propaganda. | |
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01-23-2011 01:16 PM
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seals are awesome and I think these club-totin' pricks should all be shot in the face with a high-caliber rifle | |
01-23-2011 01:24 PM
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01-23-2011 02:00 PM
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this is one of those things in the world where it's always seemed to me to be so bizarre, that some people choose to have a really passionate viewpoint on the subject while not giving a flying fuck about other stuff. | |
01-23-2011 02:01 PM
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The newest newborns aren't killed, but they lose their white fur very early (3-4 weeks) in their lives, and seals that young are routinely clubbed so what does it matter if they're 3 days or 3 weeks old? | |
01-23-2011 02:04 PM
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In the grand scheme of things, not so bad. Beating an animal to death is relative mercy compared to what most humans endure, so I kinda don't care. I mean I do care, but fuck it, right |
01-23-2011 02:12 PM
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Can't be coincidence that wufwugy and I agree on something the same time that he only writes a line or two in a reply. My brain must be simple. | |
01-23-2011 02:15 PM
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in other news, why haven't we just established private property rights for seals and whales so everyone can move on with their lives? Brain's to simple to understand. | |
01-23-2011 02:22 PM
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lol @ ppl against seal hunt who eat any kind of meat ever. |
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01-23-2011 02:28 PM
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01-23-2011 02:29 PM
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01-23-2011 02:36 PM
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Could just let them starve in 5 years when they run out of food I guess. |
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01-23-2011 02:39 PM
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01-23-2011 02:44 PM
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I haven't read much on the subject, but my reply was with regards to clubbing them just because. If there are actual reasons like food or economical issues then virtually anybody against it is a hypocrite on some level |
01-23-2011 02:53 PM
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01-23-2011 02:56 PM
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People who eat hamburgers aren't allowed to have opinions on cruelty? Many forms of barbarism and injustice exist, so it's foolish to oppose any one particular form? Liberia has a high infant mortality rate, therefore I shouldn't care about corruption in Somalia. And vice versa. | |
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01-23-2011 02:59 PM
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01-23-2011 03:07 PM
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I think now should be a good time to tell how I'm pro-dog fighting as long as they're not mistreated outside of the arena. The amount of suffering dogs endure in a deathmatch is no greater than if they were born in the wild. Actually it's arguably less. Wild animals don't usually die peaceful deaths. When they're not gulped down or crushed instantly, they're slowly chocked or disemboweled |
01-23-2011 03:09 PM
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01-23-2011 03:14 PM
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If you think the way seals are murdered is worse then the way cows are slaughtered you have some serious problems you need to address. |
Last edited by Icanhastreebet; 01-23-2011 at 03:16 PM.
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01-23-2011 03:19 PM
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Also I don't see how this subject has to do with anything in 3rd world countries and my point was that most other animals are born,bred, and slaughtered in much more inhumane conditions/ways then the on average 45seconds a seal has to deal with. |
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01-23-2011 03:19 PM
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Yeah. Including the clubbing, the way we treat seals is substantially more merciful than the way we treat our big business livestock like chicken. Seals get the attention because they're cute, photos are easy to obtain, and nobody wants to think on all the bad their luxuries or necessities are predicated upon |
01-23-2011 03:24 PM
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It could be worse is exactly what this little guy was thinking... | |
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01-23-2011 03:44 PM
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I wasn't comparing the two. I'm well aware that cows are treated inhumanely so that I can eat them. That doesn't mean I'm happy about the situation. I also wear clothes and use products that are likely the fruit of slave labor. I imagine that you probably do as well. I acknowledge that these are both much worse than seal clubbing. That shouldn't invalidate one's opinion on it. There are lots of things going on in the world that are much more horrible, but that's no reason to be apathetic about the smaller things. | |
01-23-2011 03:46 PM
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Except that it really pretty much is. Just seems like you're picking an easy target so you can feel warm inside without actually having to make any lifestyle changes to support your beliefs. | |
01-23-2011 03:51 PM
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01-23-2011 03:54 PM
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01-23-2011 04:02 PM
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It's not that I'm hung up on other things ranking more highly on the atrocities scale, my criticism is of people choosing to get outraged about something where they can't really make a difference as they probably don't at all contribute to the problem, rather than finding something (however large or small) that they consider negative where they could make a positive difference (however large or small), and taking action there. | |
01-23-2011 04:08 PM
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Ah, I understand now. Well I'm not going to get on a soap box about seal clubbing. I just think it's pretty messed up, personally. | |
01-23-2011 04:14 PM
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Also I'm sure you've all heard this joke, but it probably belongs in here anyway: | |
01-23-2011 05:02 PM
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They should stop using clubs and start using spades. | |
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01-23-2011 05:25 PM
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I think seal clubbing is a scourge on our fair city, the fact that the bouncers keep us out, and only let those seals in... just discriminatory. | |
01-23-2011 05:34 PM
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01-23-2011 05:55 PM
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Wait a second, all this seal clubbing hoopla hasn't been about them killing seals just because? Ever since this stuff hit the news eons ago, I figured it couldn't be about legit economical killings because nobody would be stupid enough to cry about that, right? I guess that goes to show that even though I have next to no faith in humanity, it's still too much |
01-23-2011 06:10 PM
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01-23-2011 06:24 PM
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01-23-2011 06:25 PM
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I suspect a lot of people in this thread are leveling but I honestly have no fucking clue. | |
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01-23-2011 06:26 PM
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01-23-2011 06:29 PM
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01-23-2011 06:37 PM
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Hey I was just trolling but here are thread-savers: a goddamn redneck water park | |
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01-23-2011 06:54 PM
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I'm just trolling too (but that should be obvious), I didn't realize there was actual discussion on sealing. I've only ever discussed clubbing baby seals as a joke, I honestly don't care how many are killed and in what manner. | |
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01-23-2011 09:22 PM
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redneck water slide is the shit tho right | |
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01-23-2011 09:53 PM
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Those pics won't load though so I can't comment. | |
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01-23-2011 10:20 PM
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01-23-2011 10:42 PM
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01-23-2011 11:54 PM
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01-23-2011 11:55 PM
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That's absolutely right, but that's also why I look to practicality instead of abstraction. When you boil it down, morality is actually a red herring. All the "morality" of our society is a product of tangible civil functions. So I won't say that shooting somebody in the head is wrong because it's morally wrong, but because it's deleterious for the society in a very real way. When you examine our morals, you'll see this sort of thing come to light. An example is how we are so willing to shoot foreign brown people in the head, yet not shoot our neighbors down the street. The morals haven't really changed, but the relative social impacts have |
01-23-2011 11:56 PM
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01-24-2011 12:07 AM
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I should reform my response a little. At first I thought your response was to a different post of mine, so that changes my first response by a little, but not a lot |
01-24-2011 12:35 AM
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01-24-2011 06:00 AM
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01-24-2011 09:44 AM
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At first I was like... | |
01-24-2011 10:06 AM
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-Seals are cute at a very young age. | |
01-24-2011 11:59 AM
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The crux of my argument is choice. Animals in our 'care' (used loosely) are under our control. If I own a dog which I've trained to be loyal to me, I can feed it, love it and take care of it, equally I can kick the shit out of it and poke it in the eyes with a stick. Once an animal is under our control, what would happen to it in the wild isn't that relevant, because we have the choice to control what actually happens to it in the present. Vegetarians say we have a choice as to whether or not we wish to eat meat and I agree with them. We have control over what we inflict on our animals. I don't feel comfortable seeing a slaughter but I choose to inflict that on animals because I like meat and it's nutritious. |
01-24-2011 02:54 PM
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Push come to shove, I may not like dog fighting for emotional or other reasons, but I usually bring up some level of support for it in a response to generic retard animal lovers making stupid arguments. |
01-25-2011 03:07 PM
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how is it that i have like 6 zillion posts and this is my 3rd time in the fking commune | |
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01-25-2011 03:20 PM
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01-25-2011 03:22 PM
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i agree with wufs post | |
01-25-2011 03:32 PM
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01-25-2011 03:46 PM
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Vegetarians will start an argument that by mixing certain foods they can get complete proteins and all the essential vitamins and minerals, but in all reality, there aren't that many that do the work to find out what they actually have to do. They are the minority. | |
01-25-2011 03:54 PM
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B12? No idea which you're referring to because it's tough to find a dietitian in this day and age that doesn't acknowledge that vegetarian diets are able to meet nutritional requirements without supplements, especially with eggs and dairy. | |
01-25-2011 04:05 PM
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01-25-2011 04:11 PM
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Yes, B12. The impossibility to absorb this vitamin if it doesn't come from an animal source is one of the reasons why many vegetarians aren't vegetarians. They somehow think that eating eggs or fish magically allows them still call themselves vegetarians. Yet if they don't consume those at the very least they will be weaker and stupider due to a lack of DHA, EPA, and B12 |
01-25-2011 04:33 PM
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The term "vegetarian" is maybe poorly defined, but is commonly accepted to be someone who at the very least doesn't consume meat (including fish for the most part), not someone who "only eats vegetables". Maybe it's a poor word choice, but you're just nitpicking semantics of an already ill-defined term to scream "vegetarians aren't allowed to eat eggs". True vegans are in the small minority of vegetarians, so to throw around the term "vegetarian" to mean "vegan" is misleading. | |
01-25-2011 04:55 PM
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I wasn't referring to semantics of vegetarianism, but that it's usually selectivism because it doesn't work that well. And my point about evolution was that it's foolish to assume optimization while straying from evolution. We already know for a fact that a diet without some kinds of animal is inferior, and the logic is that because there is much we don't know about diets, we shouldn't assume that a less "natural" one will be somehow not worse |
01-25-2011 05:09 PM
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I'm inclined to agree with you, in terms of diet optimization following what our diets would "naturally" be, but then in terms of meat, we need both much leaner meats, and in smaller quantity than we tend to consume in the west to revert back to a pre-agriculture diet. | |
01-25-2011 07:47 PM
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I would like to try seal. | |
01-25-2011 07:49 PM
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Actually, know what I would really like? A seal and veal sandwich. Throw some baby lettuces on there. | |
01-25-2011 07:55 PM
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Nobody eats seal except for busto newfies and eskimos. Canada has a tough time getting rid of the meat and afaik most of it goes to korean pet food, as the rest of the world is too disgusted by the hunt to even use it for that. I did hear that we managed to sell some to China. They'll eat anything. | |
01-25-2011 08:02 PM
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01-25-2011 08:44 PM
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Toast, mayo, seal, cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomato, toast, mayo, seal, cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomato, toast. | |
01-26-2011 01:22 AM
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I would totally eat a Baby Seal Sammich, but only if it was soaked in barbecue sauce and deepfried the GOOD OLD 'MERCIAN WAY! | |
01-26-2011 02:05 AM
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