Dolphin's human rights - the wider implications

[doodab]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-17116882

They believe dolphins and whales are sufficiently intelligent to justify the same ethical considerations as humans.

Recognising their rights would mean an end to whaling and their captivity, or their use in entertainment.

I am pro-dolphin for the following reason. If we apply the same ethical considerations to humans, their use in entertainment should be curtailed which means an end to all that X factor big brother cack on TV.

[EternalOptimist]

I remember reading about the tragedy of the deaths of hundreds of young dolphins.

They were found with massive internal damage and big percussion wounds, obviously caused by fishermen using some kind of blunt harpoon. So the fishermen were castigated in the usual way. But no one ever found one of the blunt weapons that was being used.

Till someone filmed a big male ramming a young male with his beak, causing his insides to burst and killing him stone dead. So when you see a family of dolphins playing, jumping out of the water, they are not playing. Its the young ones trying to escape being murdered, and the old males trying to protect their eating and sh@gging rights

so there is no doubt. they are just like humans

[d000hg]

What about mice?

[SimonMac]

Dolphins are the only other mammal to have sex for pleasure, for that reason I'm in!

[doodab]

I remember reading about the tragedy of the deaths of hundreds of young dolphins.

They were found with massive internal damage and big percussion wounds, obviously caused by fishermen using some kind of blunt harpoon. So the fishermen were castigated in the usual way. But no one ever found one of the blunt weapons that was being used.

Till someone filmed a big male ramming a young male with his beak, causing his insides to burst and killing him stone dead. So when you see a family of dolphins playing, jumping out of the water, they are not playing. Its the young ones trying to escape being murdered, and the old males trying to protect their eating and sh@gging rights

so there is no doubt. they are just like humans

There are also documented cases of organised rape. Apparently it's quite common. Not something the save the whales brigade like to bring up though.

[bobspud]

What about mice?

"Oh bollocks!"

[EternalOptimist]

There are also documented cases of organised rape. Apparently it's quite common. Not something the save the whales brigade like to bring up though.

And the greenies want to end their captivity. Typical namby pamby, wishy washy, arty farty, tree hugging, airy fairy liberals, wanting to let the murderers and rapists loose and into our oceans
keep em banged up I say, and none of that tuna porridge either, just sardines and water.
Blue bottlenosed bastids

[wobbegong]

Dolphins are the only other mammal to have sex for pleasure, for that reason I'm in!

What about the French? Some of them do it for a laugh, too you know.

[EternalOptimist]

What about the French? Some of them do it for a laugh, too you know.

ah m'seiu, ah arm not sure whedder to bonk mah mamselle or mah bottlenose.
Un has a funny noz and stinks of fish, but d ozzer is in de Pacific ocean right noww

[xoggoth]

And wasps.