Friday, February 26, 2010

Double Standard

I just need to put this out into the world, because I think this is a huge double standard. If a dog so much as bites someone, there will be public outcry to put the dog down. Said dog mist be unstable and unbalanced, so it does not have the right to live. If a dog killed someone, there would be no question or outcry, the dog would simply be euthanized. End of story.

Yet when a whale kills one person and is linked to two other human deaths, the common reaction is to say "meh"?

Listen, I'm not advocating that the whale be killed, but I'm not understanding why we would bother keeping the whale around and certainly not understanding why anyone would choose to work with the whale now. It either needs to be released to the wild where it's instincts will better serve it or taken away from human contact all together somehow.

For the record, I'm not sure I understand the killing of dogs that are aggressive. Most likely they need a new owner that will train them and treat them correctly. But a dog that shows his willingness to kill 3 times.... Well, let's just say that if your first reaction to that sentence is to put the dog down, then I would say why isn't that also your first reaction to the situation with this Sea World whale?

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