A Message to the Pro-Caps
Either you believe dolphins are intelligent or you don’t. Of course many people did not believe the Earth was round — despite support of scientific data — for quite some time. The facts remain! Your opinion is irrelevant. Science has proven the high intelligence of dolphins.
Any sentient being will choose freedom over captivity. For you, the opinions of these animals do not matter. For you, what they desire is irrelevant. You would therefore assert yourself as the dominant homo sapiens that you believe you are. How else could you assume that these intelligent beings’ feelings do not matter, unless you feel like some kind of ego-god by deeming them worthy of a life of incarceration? That is what separates us. That is what makes us different. We Anti-caps simply care more about the cetaceans’ emotional and mental well-being than you do.
Definition of COMPASSION
: sympathetic consciousness of others’ distress together with a desire to alleviate it
Definition of EVIL
2 : causing discomfort or repulsion : offensive <an evil odor>
3 : causing harm : pernicious <the evil institution of slavery>
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If those “dominant homo sapiens” were living in the wild, they would be nothing more than a snack. The only thing that keeps us at the top of the food chain is the ability to build walls.
Yes, but building walls for our own shelter is not enough. There are those of us who delight in building walls for the incarceration of intelligent sentient beings so that they can do silly tricks for dead fish.