Re:Vancouver bans whales and dolphins at aquarium
by freeflight on Thursday May 18, 2017 @05:14AM
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That's the equivalent of putting somebody in solitary confinement for life, which does more mental harm than good, we already have plenty of scientific evidence for this not just for Humans but many other social animal species. Pigs for example tend to be very clean and smart animals, that is until you hoard too many of them in too little room, then they start to act nasty towards each other because of the stress that situation represents to them.
The behavior you are describing also has little to nothing to do with psychopathy, which is far more prevalent outside of mental institutions and prisons than most people would like to admit.
Humans are also some of the most social and familial animals in the world. Nevertheless, some humans kill, dismember or do the most terrible things to other humans, having so serious mental issues that must be keep apart from society. This pattern can be found in all intelligent animal species. Most specimens are fine but a few can born being psychopaths or develop as one later. And a clever psycho is not something that you should take lightly. Life is unfair, and sometimes (and I'm not saying that is necessarily the Lolita's case) there is a good reason to have a big and mean animal isolated from its congeners.