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Is there some animal which should be kept in captivity? For instance, I don't understand how it's accepted to cage birds and keep them from flying. It makes no
by cm3 11y ago
Is there some animal which should be kept in captivity? For instance, I don't understand how it's accepted to cage birds and keep them from flying. It makes no sense to me. Please explain, as I'm sure there's a valid reason, but if you try to look it up you end up on animal rights activist sites that don't explain much.
- Synaesthesia 11y agoPeople also shouldn't be kept in captivity.
- pbhjpbhj 11y agoI disagree. People who pose a significant threat to wider society should be incarcerated IMO, either for safety or punishment purposes. Locking up animals that have caused no significant harm seems wrong unless there is some other reason, eg food production. Personally I'm fine morally with eating non factory-farmed meat; keeping a massive creature locked up just to use as part of a show to me is morally objectionable. Zoos seem terrible places on the whole; safari parks are acceptable to me though. I remember with great sadness my first visit to a zoo (in the UK, as an adult) seeing a lion in a tiny cage pacing up and down.