The Cove(and meme)

Late Sunday night/early Monday morning my mother watched a documentary on Netflix called "The Cove." When she told me about it, I cried my eyes out. It's about dolphins in captivity, and how utterly miserable they really are. At Sea World, they are given Tagament and Maalox because they have ulcers. That's how stressed out they are by all the noise. You see, dolphins are very acoustic animals(their sonar makes our sonar look like a toy), and what do they do at Sea World? Put them in a concrete tank and surround them with thousands of very loud people.

That's not even the worst part. They get their dolphins from this place in Japan that uses metal rods in the water being banged on to scare them into a cove where they are either sold to aquariums or slaughtered and sold to restaurants. After hearing about how horrible they feel at aquariums, I think I'd rather be a dolphin that ends up on someones plate.

The guy who first trained Flipper is who you have to thank for this, but he's no uncaring prick, not by a long shot. You see, he's now an activist against this sort of stuff. What turned him around was when a dolphin literally committed suicide in his arms. You see, dolphins have to think to breathe, and this particular one swam into the guys arms and refused to take another breath.

When Mom told me about it yesterday, I wept for those poor creatures. I wept for the people in Japan who were banging on the metal rods, not because they are cruel, but because they probably have no clue what they are doing. I wept for the man who trained Flipper, because he now has to live with such guilt for the rest of his life and because no one will listen to him. But most of all, I wept for humanity. If we can be this cruel to such a selfless creature, is it any wonder that we are so cruel to our fellow humans?

Kingdom Hearts 30 Day Meme
Day 13: Favorite Nobody

Dancers. I'm a bit too depressed to say any more, though.