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At the hour of my posting this comment, all of its siblings fail to appreciate that the parent points out an irony (one that absolutely is there by the way) and
by rdiddly 7y ago
At the hour of my posting this comment, all of its siblings fail to appreciate that the parent points out an irony (one that absolutely is there by the way) and does nothing much else. It's not a policy recommendation. It doesn't mount a logical argument as to relative priority of problems. All of that stuff has to be inferred by the reader. Some of it perhaps we are intended to infer, but the writer's intent also, would have to be inferred by the reader. It's not even really a piece of 'logic' at all; that square peg has to be round-holed by the reader. The only thing it actually says (and I encourage people to try to mostly stick to that in general) is to point out the irony, which I think is absolutely worth pointing out given the well-meaning but frankly ridiculous context. The thing that makes it ridiculous in fact is this very irony. It sucks to have your Saturday feel-goods about the emancipated orangutan shit-upon, but after a while you learn that life is full of these little ironies, and it's an acquired taste, and like anything that's worth doing or living or having, the contradictions make it richer and you appreciate it more.
- seamyb88 7y agoExactly. I, the parent, have probably the same opinions on policy of animal captivity as those who disagreed that I should have said a thing. Those who can't see the point I was making are precisely those who enable the kinds of atrocities looked back on with the thought "how could they let that happen?".