This image is sometimes used to convey a comically absurd brand of evil. Examples include the film Thank You for Smoking; and the town flag episode of South Park.
Can you envision a scenario where this so-awful-it's-funny deed is in actuality the best course of action?
2007-04-11 08:08:55 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Wow. Some of you have completely missed the gist of the question. There's a reason I posted it under Philosophy and not Animal Rights.
2007-04-11 08:58:48 · update #1
a) Think Hitchcock's 'The Birds', but with seals.
b) Think Aliens, but with seals.
c) Think Monty Python's Last Crusade but with baby seals instead of that white rabbit.
2007-04-11 08:14:30 · answer #1 · answered by cat99 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There perhaps should be a way to keep the seal population under control. I remember the animal lovers stating that the seals only ate trash fish [ a ridiculous statement ] but in fact the seals live completely on fish that are being depleted in the oceans. Of course we are depleting the fish too but who would you prefer to see eating a fish - you or the seal. Also sealers have been using the seal as a source of income for years, in a part of Canada that has limited employment opportunities. If there was a humane way to cull the seal population, I, for one say go to it. And don't forget the Bambi syndrom applies here. What if baby seals were ugly. Anyway I can't see that the sight of a baby seal being clubbed is funny in any way, awful or not.
2007-04-11 08:27:23 · answer #2 · answered by william a 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hunting is a strange thing, no matter what the weapon is the prey is always going to end up dead. Is it better to bleed to death after being speared or have the sense knocked out of you with a club? Either way, trying to equate human emotions with other species is a logical fallacy know as Anthropomorphism. Seals get eaten in the wild by bears and killer whales. Those deaths are also gruesome. Its difficult to argue if one method of killing a creature is more "justifiable " than another. The problem as I see it is that the consumers of seal hides are not exposed to the process and are shielded from the reality ( and the moral arguments) of the products they purchase.
2007-04-11 08:59:14 · answer #3 · answered by ycats 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Baby seals are just animals. Those targeted species of seal, the Hooded and Harp seals, are not endangered species, and the government allowable quota is never fully harvested.
The club has been outlawed for use in Canada. Any pictures or movies of seals being clubbed during the annual seal harvest shown by those left wing activists are old and dated and used for their propaganda.
But there seems to be evidence that the club is still the most humane way of dispatching a seal vs. shooting it in the head.
2007-04-11 08:21:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
there's a reason the Canadian seal hunt has banned the killing of infant seals. White coat ( infant seals) at the instant are not allowed to be hunted. Now as for looking seals. in case you have not have been given any undertaking with a hamburger do not take undertaking with flipper pie.
2016-10-28 10:57:33 · answer #5 · answered by labounty 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can see having to kill the baby seals if they're dying of some horrible contagious illness and they're in immense amounts of pain/discomfort. I think the problem people have with the thought of clubbing baby seals is not that it's baby seals that are dying, but that the phrase "clubbing baby seals" brings up such a violent image.
2007-04-11 09:16:15 · answer #6 · answered by rinnasaurusrex 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Starvation
2007-04-11 08:53:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I prefer clubbing with SEALs (of the Navy variety, two of my best friends from martial arts class are former SEALs).
2007-04-11 08:16:49 · answer #8 · answered by sarge927 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Has a seal ever clubbed a human? Now THAT would be funny! Cute little buggers chasing people around---imagine seeing that on CNN.
2007-04-11 08:27:46 · answer #9 · answered by dumb-blonde 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Many shipwrecked sailors faced with starvation have clubbed seals to survive. Wouldn't you?
2007-04-11 08:28:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋