Q: If you were standing in front of a button that let all the killer whales in captivity instantly free would you click it?
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"Willy was never really free. The killer whale star of the Hollywood movie Free Willy had to be cared for by humans even after he was released and he never successfully integrated with his wild kin. Researchers now say attempts to return him to the wild were misguided", and it adds later:
"While we as humans might find it appealing to free a long-term captive animal," the researchers say in the paper, "the survival and well-being of the animal may be severely impacted in doing so." The only cetaceans that have successfully been returned to the wild have been young and only kept in captivity for short periods.
So, freeing those whales instantly, would mean sending many of them to a certain death.
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If somebody tries to stop me pushing the button, I will throw him/her right in the jaws of a Killer Whale.
No animals should be kept in captivity just for fun. That is injustice. That is cruelty.
I would at all cost.
Thanks for asking.
Personal opinion
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This seems a lot like those ethical thought experiments that are supposed to pull your intuitions one way or another, but I usually don't get swayed by them. I always end up looking at the things that aren't mentioned. For instance, the famous trolley problem - would you switch the tracks in order to kill one person if it meant not careening into five? Why or why not? Heck, I always answer that we should just blow the horn...
But it does raise a good point about animal rights (not to be held against their will, perhaps) vs. just humane or respectable treatment as we do what we want to with them. I mean, you don't really hear the same argument being put forward for (e.g.) dogs, cats, and other pets. Though, I think we treat them much the same as Sea World treats its whales. Our assumption that they'd fail in the wild is just that (an assumption), and I'm happy to grant that.. but I don't know that it's that implausible.
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Who is championing their cause?
What mammals do you think SHOULD be in captivity?
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I'd push the button and let them live their lives as intended.
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Of course, like the answerer above, I have to say that the question shouldn't stop here. What I said is just as true, for example, of the approximately one billion pigs raised in crueler conditions for food.
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