I'll upvote because I agree in principle, but I don't think this is an effective approach if your goal is reducing animal cruelty. It looks like it's interested and happy.
what else would you want me to do? don't put highly intelligent creatures into cages for our own entertainment. It doesn't matter what human emotion we project onto them. they lead sad and stressful lives.
I'm actually suprised this is controversial, considering this is a vegan community
People are lazy and don't like thinking. They judge based on first appearances. It can be more effective to use a picture of an animal that looks like it's suffering. Most people aren't familiar with whale microexpessions and think this whale looks happy.
I didn't intend to be effective, I just wanted to share something that upset me with some fellow vegans.
Most people aren't familiar with whale microexpessions and think this whale looks happy.
I don't think you have to be familiar with that at all. The dolphin lives in a tiny confined space and is deprived of everything interesting in their life, unable to pursue most of their behavior. Now if there is something going on outside the barriers of the aquarium, of course it excites/interests the dolphin. That doesn't make it wholesome. It is just sad.
I didn't say it had to be effective. I explained why it's not. It's the person at the top of the thread who said it should be effective. I just explained the issue.
The dolphin lives in a tiny confined space and is deprived of everything interesting in their life, unable to pursue most of their behavior. Now if there is something going on outside the barriers of the aquarium, of course it excites/interests the dolphin.
That requires a bare minimum of thought to understand. Most people don't want to put in the bare minimum.
I genuinely don't think this is uneffective. There are probably a bunch of people who genuinely didn't recognize the problem here and were exposed to a different perspective. And might be more critical next time they see a supposedly 'wholesome' picture like that.
