Comments on: South Park “Whale Whores” Manages To Hilariously Offend Everyone Equally

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:53:00 +0000

I agree to some level. But animal rights are completely valid. They punish people for torturing animals and pushing wildlife to extinction. They improved the living conditions of animals in zoos and research labs. And they’re even more valid for animals of marked intellect such as dolphins, elephants, and apes. But animal rights must be considered for even the creatures who aren’t necessarily cute or bright. I’m disappointed by the treatment of what ends up in the grocery store. Meat is frankly better for you when the animal that it came from lived a healthy life. And I for one would feel much happier knowing what I put in my stomach was killed quickly and painlessly, and not forced to stand in a cramped box it’s entire life.

What’s more, another thing that people forget is that humans are animals too. As Gandhi said ‘”The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:41:00 +0000

Most people don’t know anything about animals. And so comparing a cetacean (dolphin/whale) to a cow is simple for them. But cetaceans aren’t domesticated livestock, they’re species numbers aren’t inexhaustible, we’re not breeding them in pens. And they are vastly more intelligent than anything that makes it onto american plates. In fact they share many of the same traits that mark and define chimp and human intellect. Cetaceans have complex social structures, emotion, language, can learn and develop new hunting strategies intuitively and pass them on to others, etc. It has even been discovered that dolphins have names for each other, just like us, and some have incorporated tools for hunting purposes. They and other animals such as chimps and elephants are so similar to us it’s uncanny.

Perhaps because it looks less like us than a chimp, we don’t question what happens to them as much as we do with our closer relations. But it and animal rights are something to think about. How similar intelligence-wise does the creature have to be to us before we’ll decide not to kill it?

By: Christian

Christian — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:47:53 +0000

When I saw the first telivised season i thought that you were doing a pretty cool thing. But south park and it´s message were spot on. Be happy that there are a ban on whailing and let the “researchers” fish their quota and use all that money you are bringing in for something that really makes a difference. Why not fund an underground associacion against the Chinease communist regime. Thats not realistic, I know. But there has to be something else? Patrol tha somalian waters and shoot the pirats that the pussy navyships wont dare to even approach! =D
Naaa, keep up the good work. But……………….. why…………. do you buy another boat made out of plastic whem u KNOW how much ice you are going to encounter??

By: Sigh

Sigh — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:56:18 +0000

Wow, hate to comment long after the debate here, but it doesn’t bug me that the Japanese are hunting several apex species to extinction — it bugs me that ANYONE is hunting a species to extinction.

* Domesticated cows are not near extinction. Causing needless pain and distress in their deaths is immoral, for sure, but irrelevent here. Whales are worried about because they are apex species, and will be made extinct, in the wild, in most of our lifetimes. Not to stop anyone from starving, but because a whaling crew wants a great paying job.

* Rights? This isn’t an issue of rights, it’s an issue of destroying our own ecosystem, irrevocably.

* Atomic Bomb? Really? Somehow our tactics in a war 65 years ago is relevent to the whales’ survival how? Read up on “Tu quoque” logical fallacy. As in:
Americans say driving whales to extinction is wrong.
Americans did something wrong themselves, too.
So, whaling is not wrong.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:27:11 +0000

Okay, before you go off and say shi-ot like that you have to really think about what you’re saying. This guy is working to better YOUR life in retrospect by helping to save the oceans. No oceans = no people. That includes people like you who leave loser messages dissing heroes.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:23:39 +0000

I agree! Thank you for replying in such a way.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:19:19 +0000

Although I liked the last part of your reply, I can not help but to say as a response to the first few sentences, do not be so ignorant. Animals do have rights that humans should take into account. The problem wth society and animals is that they are not respected, as they are viewed with that exact opinion. Humans need to understand that animals are equally as important, as they live lives and to kill them would be taking a life — murder. You did back up your point but I don’t totally agree with you.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:28:51 +0000

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By: Smokey

Smokey — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:28:32 +0000

I quote Cartman:”I don’t give a Fu@k about whales, so go and hug a tree.”

By: b5200

b5200 — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:38:06 +0000

Sea Shepherd doesn’t blame companies with no connection to whaling or the Japanese people for the whalers. Nikon isn’t sending out the boats that kill the whales. Sea Shepherd does however expose comanies that are linked to whaling and other atrocious activities such as Furuno inc. and Mitsubishi(freezing large amounts of Bluefin Tuna to sell once they go extinct).