Controversy?!?!?!

[Birdland]

Oh, gosh! I can't believe I'm getting involved in this (Especially since I'm half-inclined to believe that Kate was pulling our legs. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] )

As has been said in the "Was Tolkien a Racist?" threads, the attitude that animals were put on this earth strictly for our use and dominion was firmly fixed in the minds of most humans of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Likewise the anthopomorphising of certain animals as "evil". (see Wargs, Crebains, and Oliphaunts).

One thing I just can't stand is Hypocrites.
Like when people spend millions of dollars to free the whale from the "Free Willie" movies, they could have given the money to someone who relly needed them, like the homeless.
Greanpeace have some good ideas, but the protection of animals because they are cute and have big eyes are not one of them.

That's some mighty big generalizations, there, Baran. Why do you assume that people who have an interest in the welfare of animals have no interest in the welfare of humans? My own observations have shown me that the opposite is true. A person who shows cruelty to animals will likely be equally cruel to his fellow man if given the opportunity.

And your summation of organizations like Greenpeace is rather simplistic. Protesting against the extinction of entire species is a noble cause. While you may not approve of some of their methods, (I have problems with PETA, myself) they have done much to open the eyes of the human race to these issues.

Score two for Kate, B-W! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]