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Re:Cheezburger Dumping GoDaddy over SOPA by pork on Thursday December 22, 2011 @11:46PM (#3384652)
That's utterly irrelevant. I find elephants in the wild beautiful, worthy of protection, and not as far from endangered as you think. It's my personal opinion to find elephant hunters equivalent to scumsucking reprobates, and to direct my dollars away from their businesses.

By your logic, we should all universally also have no issue with hunting dogs or cats or really any goddamn animal not on the brink of extinction.

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Re:Cheezburger Dumping GoDaddy over SOPA by jws on Friday December 23, 2011 @12:05AM (#3384699)
It was a culling. Too many elephants, not enough resources. That elephant wasn't hunted so much as scheduled for termination. And we do do the same thing with surplus dogs and cats here in the US at least.

Still, paying to do the shooting is even creepier than hunting an elephant. Forget the tracking, stalking, and pay to just enjoy the killing? Eww. Imagine the Humane Society auctioning off a day operating the kitty gas chamber.

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Re:Cheezburger Dumping GoDaddy over SOPA by vedang on Friday December 23, 2011 @03:45AM (#3385130)
"It was a culling" ^ This argument makes no sense to me. http://www.progressiveboink.com/jon/images/calvinhobbes/jon5...
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Re:Cheezburger Dumping GoDaddy over SOPA by rhizome on Friday December 23, 2011 @02:01AM (#3384966)
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Re:Cheezburger Dumping GoDaddy over SOPA by dantheman on Friday December 23, 2011 @12:05AM (#3384700)
I'm not familiar with the elephant hunts with regard to godaddy @ all, does anyone have a link? But I've heard that a lot of the wild game hunt trips in Africa actually cause animals to be raised, so the net result is an actual increase in the animals - not sure if it is relevant in this case or to you in general.
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Re:Cheezburger Dumping GoDaddy over SOPA by jaysonelliot on Friday December 23, 2011 @12:36AM (#3384787)
Here's a link: http://mashable.com/2011/03/31/godaddy-ceo-elephant/
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Re:Cheezburger Dumping GoDaddy over SOPA by jQueryIsAwesome on Friday December 23, 2011 @12:03AM (#3384694)
Yes, that is correct. It is wrong to not give cats and dogs special privileges because they are prettier and more easily domesticated?

Plus, it was an isolated decision of a member of godaddy, there was no meeting at godaddy to decide the killing of the elephant.

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Re:Cheezburger Dumping GoDaddy over SOPA by jaysonelliot on Friday December 23, 2011 @12:44AM (#3384807)
Not a member, but the CEO. His actions should absolutely reflect on GoDaddy as a whole.
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