Poll on PETA

[patsmor]

Just curious
EDITED: Links below poll questions.

Poll Recent PETA actions

Mommy Kills Animals (Includes PDF of comic) http://www.furisdead.com/feat-momfur.asp

PETA Kids page: http://www.petakids.com/comics.asp

Daddy Fishing: Read more... )

Comments

Censorship

[metageek]

Yeah, but we don't need censorship laws to control this. All it takes is for mothers targeted by the PETA idiots to sue them for slander. Handing a child a leaflet that says "Mommy kills animals" and "Ask your mommy how many dead animals she killed to make her fur clothes", and shows a picture of Mommy gleefully hacking up a still-living bunny, certainly ought to qualify. It's false and malicious (why else would you set out to frighten a small child?).

And the anti-fishing one is no better; when it says, "He's hooked on killing", that's obviously false in most cases.

Oh, and neither of them are properly targeted. Some of them will be dropped on the street and picked up by other kids who don't understand that their mommies aren't the ones the comic is talking about. (Plus, of course, most of the anti-fur ones will be handed to kids of women wearing fake fur-there's no way to tell, in the dark, when people are rushing into the theatre to get out of the cold. PETA would probably respond with the usual line about fake fur meaning you think that real fur is OK; but that's just garbage. Fake fur doesn't hurt animals, and it feels good.)

Re: Censorship

[patsmor]

I didn't mean I expected or wanted censorship -- what I meant to say was that I wanted the 1 and 10 values to be as sharply opposed as possible... the far extreme ends of the spectra, leaving lots of room in the middle for differing views...