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Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by Falling3 on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @02:06PM (#11490668)
Wolves are irrelevant here. If we're talking about the morality of the way we treat animals, it's a logical fallacy to try to use wolf behavior to justify our own (and something I'm sure would never occur in any other discussion of morality).
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Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by stcredzero on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @04:41PM (#11492019)
it's a logical fallacy to try to use wolf behavior to justify our own

Human society tends to operate on that logical fallacy. The badness/awfulness of others is taken to justify "extreme measures" from our own side. (And I would agree that this is wrong.)

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Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by Falling3 on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @05:06PM (#11492218)
Absolutely. All the more reason to point it out.
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