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[Rutilant]

No.

Would you care to elaborate on that?  At what point is pain not a factor?  Hopefully at some point after we start talking about animals organisms without pain receptors, or I'll have to call you silly.

Does no one care that they're allegedly fishing for sharks? Sharks which are as intelligent as most mammals and birds, and very very endangered.

Is this a rhetorical question?  Yes, people care.  No, people at large probably don't care as much as they do about cute puppies.  You can't blame them too much, because biology does it.  It's a nurturing instinct triggered by things that look helpless or infantile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuteness.

A lot of the world's most intelligent animals are classed as vermin or else slaughtered in the wild or farmed with impunity. There is a great level of ignorance concerned when animals that don't hold public pedestals are abused.

Yep.  No disagreement - Fisherman who catch the ocean sunfish (Mola Mola) cut their fins off and throw them back in the water so, without being able to swim, they just fall to the bottom of the ocean and die because they clog sailfish nets.  They can be up to 90% of the bycatch, and their conservational status hasn't been evaluated yet. 

There's only so much time in one's life and you can't champion the cause of every animal in the world.

[pisskop]

Would you care to elaborate on that?  At what point is pain not a factor?  Hopefully at some point after we start talking about animals without pain receptors, or I'll have to call you silly.

Pain is an ancient evolution.  Its been observed to play in almost every multicellular organism.  preception of pain may be argued to a limited degree, but feeling pain?  Not really.

Is this a rhetorical question?  Yes, people care.  No, people at large probably don't care as much as they do about cute puppies.  You can't blame them too much, because biology does it.  It's a nurturing instinct triggered by things that look helpless or infantile. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuteness#cite_note-Karraker-8.

This, imo is part of the issue.  Its a resonse and action based upon an emotional impetus.  Its not controlled or nesscessarily consistent.  Emotions should play little to no part in a debate, and only to me have worth as secondary consdierations.  Maybe that's why I'm iffy on diplomacy.

Yep.  No disagreement - Fisherman who catch the ocean sunfish (Mola Mola) cut their fins off and throw them back in the water so, without being able to swim, they just fall to the bottom of the ocean and die because they clog sailfish nets.  They can be up to 90% of the bycatch, and their conservational status hasn't been evaluated yet. 

There's only so much time in one's life and you can't champion the cause of every animal in the world.

I'd honestly prefer the conservation of a species to the 'protection' of another, esp considering how common the first is.  But. . .

[Coalwalker]

Hey, wait a minute. Why hasn't PETA released a Dwarf Fortress paro--oh right, because they can't possibly make it any crazier.

[Di]

You know I could post something about

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species extinction being quite natural process unless you put the world in the fridge

or that

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that bit about the animal killing being horrible only to people curled comfortably in their comfortable chair with their comfortable cat curling comfortably on their comfortable lap while they comfortably sip their comfortable tea.

But I'd just ask instead: why the hell you people are keeping this thread in the top of the board?

[omg_scout]

PETA protesting against DF I can't think of a better advertisement for this game

[locustgate]

PETA protesting against DF I can't think of a better advertisement for this game

Why is People Eating Tasty Animals protesting DF?

[pisskop]

Yak brain.

Llama sweetbread.

[tahujdt]

Some people think that humans are speeding the extinction of other species, but hey, so did the dinosaurs!

Yak brain.

Llama sweetbread.

Yum, just like mother used to make!

[codyorr]

Here's a thought. This is DWARF MODE DISCUSSION! Go to General Discussion if you want to not escape reality. This thread is doomed to movement or lock in my opinion.