Is Dolphinless Tuna The Biggest Paradox of Our Time?

Question

OK - kill the tuna--that's fine-- just not the dolphins, right?

Discuss ...

Funny how the consensus has no sympathy For Flies, Roaches, Mosquitos, and Ticks

When I see certain insects, or arachnids-- beetles, moths, or ladybugs--I'm usually inclined to escort them out of my house, because I feel too cruel to squash them.

But Isn't if funny how respect for life end at flies, roaches, and black widows, and ticks?

Are we just conditioned to see these things as despicable?

Damn! I should have filed this under philosophy instead!

Lovenrckts who ever said I was vegan - LOL - I'm just asking a hypothetical question, that's all ... I live for philosophical discussions as these.

So are crows. Why isn't anyone going out of their way to create a "Save The Crows" wildlife campaign?

WEHELL! you're certainly in a journalist-correcting mood tonight, Anthony Spears. But you're right, I'm a grown woman, and can admit my faults, even in a "post-partying" drunken stupor. That is indeed an oxymoron--my bad.
Thank you sir. You have proven me wrong.

BACK TO THE QUESTION PEOPLE!! (Paradox, Irony, Oxymoron--watever; Are we programmed by society, to give preferential treatment to certain things, over others?)

The 'Ol double-standard tuna sandwich, eh? Lovenrckts ... very cute

"Coelacanth-Safe" Tuna ... heh heh ... incredibly clever A.S.

Answer 1

I wouldn't say it's a paradox, but maybe a near-oxymoron. A paradox is more like saying "This sentence is a lie."

Sorry, I don't mean to be a language Tsar, but I had to take the opportunity to correct a journalist because I have to compensate for my low grades in high school English.

Double standard, perhaps?

As for the question: There's definitely a double standard when it comes to wildlife conservation.

You never hear about "Coelacanth-Safe" Tuna. I think it has to do with a shallow society who campaigns for whatever is cute, friendly-looking, or the star of a T.V. show (Flipper).

Answer 2

I know what u mean. I try not to kill mosquitoes, flies or insects. I don't eat tuna either I just don't like eating them. ( Now chicken, elk and beef I love to eat)
The thing is dolphins are endangered species and tuna are not. So we can caught tuna to eat, but not dolphins. Also dolphins are not eaten most of the time....actually most of the time dolphins just get hurt (which the dolphinless tuna prevents) and so they live a miserable life, while the tuna quickly drowned up above the water and humanely get consumed. There no paradox... but I still don't get how they could do that. i mean 100%.

Answer 3

I love animals as much as the next guy, but mosquitoes? C'mon! They carry diseases, suck blood out of us and their stings hurt. They are a nuisance.

As for the dolphins, they are very evolved. I don't think the tuna is in the same league. It would be great if you could just let everything live, but let's face it. Not everyone is vegan and we all gotta eat. Remember, the dolphins are as smart as we are, you want to go out of your way to protect them.

I got a taste for a non-paradoxical tuna sandwich.

Answer 4

Well the thing is this. (in my opinion of course)

Have you heard about a thing called 'selecting breeding'? I guess that's what hapens in nature to animals. The smaller it gets, the more reproductive it'll be.
For example, do you find that a dolphin has around 30,000 offspring (kids) per year? No. How about per season? Of course not.
But that happens to insects. In any given moment, your bedroom has around 2 Billion (and that's with the B) fleas!
That more than doubles the weight of your mattress in about 10 years!

So, you have the answer right there. I guess people don't care about the small animals til they get really big in population.

Answer 5

Right. Since Biblical times people have relied on fish as a food source. Because Dolphins adapt to people so much better than any other fish, we leave them alone.. If those stupid Tuna would only wake up.

Answer 6

Mmm... Dolphin


There seems to be a very intelligent discusssion going on here...

If roaches, black widows, and ticks leave me alone ill leave them alone.
The crow populations needs to be decreased, they have killed off all the other birds where I live...

Well... my opinion is that all animals are better than humans(i hate them so much...)

Answer 7

No, I think the point is that we eat the tuna -- therefore it isn't going to waste. But the dolphin dies for nothing. We don't make use of the meat or other by products.

Answer 8

Nuke the whales. Has nothing to do with the question I know.