http://www.flickr.com/photos/benweger/3199933325/
http://blog.peta.org/archives/2009/01/sea_kitten_high.php
“PETA’s right: Anglers should find a hobby that doesn’t involve hurting animals.
In college, I had a fish friend named Jack who used to wait for me to come home from classes. When I opened the door to my apartment, Jack would race up to the top of the tank to greet me and take food from my fingers. I recently read about a Pennsylvania man and his young son who taught their fish to swim through hoops, push fish-sized soccer balls into nets, and do other tricks.
Fish are smart, curious animals, just like the dogs and cats many of us share our homes with. If you wouldn’t hook a pussycat through the mouth for “fun,” you shouldn’t do it to a “sea kitten” either.”
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/outposts/2009/01/petas-sea-kitte.html
There was a time when I believed that any position held by more than one grown man had to have some intellectual merit. The position might be from a very alien worldview, based on faulty information, or the result of insular thinking; but even the strangest views (bigfoot, ufos, NRMs, Nazism, we-never-went-to-the-moon, 911-was-an-inside-job, etc) must have something going for them.
Then I discovered Sea Kittens.
I am now forced to recognize what I call the “Sea Kitten Threshold”: the point beyond which an argument veers fatally into self-parody to the point that no intelligent human being, however misinformed or differently biased, could possibly take it seriously. I still maintain that the Sea Kitten Threshold is scarcely ever reached, indeed I know of no other example than Sea Kittens.
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There was a time when I believed that any position held by one or more grown men had to have some intellectual merit. The position might be from a very alien worldview, based on faulty information, or the result of insular thinking; but even the strangest views (bigfoot, ufos, NRMs, Nazism, we-never-went-to-the-moon, 911-was-an-inside-job, etc) must have something going for them.
Then I discovered Sea Kittens.
I am now forced to recognize what I call the “Sea Kitten Threshold”: the point beyond which an argument veers fatally into self-parody to the point that no intelligent human being, however misinformed or differently biased, could possibly take it seriously. I still maintain that the Sea Kitten Threshold is scarcely ever reached, indeed I know of no other example than Sea Kittens.
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And theres still a bunch of hollywood its who donate to PETA and its idiotic campagns
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