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Originally Posted by Arnox
My proactive step is that which, if undertaken by everyone, would result in these things being nonexistent. I think it's fair to ask of every person to act as they would like the entire population to act. I don't eat meat, I don't eat animal products, I don't buy animal products. I buy cotton clothes, I eat fruits and vegetables, I have soy derivatives for dairy. If everyone undertook the diet and way of life that I did, videos like this wouldn't exist. I think it's fair to say that so long as I act in my own way to reduce my impact on the pain and suffering of others, I've done a good thing. That's my proactive step.
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It's not undertaken by everyone, though, is it? And your solo proactive step does absolutely nothing to prevent it. So what you just said is as redundant as saying "if everyone stopped abusing animals there'd be no animal abuse". Mind = blown.
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Do you know what a chemical is? I'll give you a hint: water is a chemical, diamonds are chemicals. Gold is a chemical; the word means nothing and is generally pushed by people who don't understand the science behind additives and food preservation. It's a real buzzword that literally means nothing.
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Do you know what the word literally means? I'll give you a hint: no, you don't.
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My point is that it's hypocritical to be against abuse at a circus but not against abuse from animal farming.
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I know what your point was. It's neither complex nor original.
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I infer that the logic employed by people in this thread is that they dislike animals being tortured and hurt regardless of their situation re: circus animals or not. It is, in and of itself, something that they all wish would not exist. All I'm saying is that it's rather poor form and illogical (read: deductively incompatible) to be against this video while simultaneously undergoing steps in your everyday life that results in the suffering on animals.
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I'm glad to know that you took steps to verify that your cotton clothes were not manufactured by children in some third world sweat shop, or that your PC was not made in some Chinese factory with diabolically low working standards (aka slavery), or other examples I'm sure you can come up with yourself.
You really are a superhero. Congrats.
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I'm glad that people care about animals, because it's a very serious topic that is often overlooked by people who just love the taste of eggs and baron. But I wish more people would understand that they partake in the very activity they're against every day of the week. Being outraged at a video like this does absolutely nothing to help the situation of animal suffering; abstaining from a diet that contains animal and animal products from poor sources does.
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Patently it does not, otherwise why does this video exist? Nothing you have ever done in your life prevented what happened in that video (whatever it was, I didn't watch).
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Therefore, I would argue that it is logically void and pointless to be sad over a video of animal abuse when you go ahead and abuse animals yourself.
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Yawn.