PETA Asks Gamers To Be Kind To Zerglings
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But they can be de-beaked and actually make quite good house pets.Durrsly said:
Wouldn't want to keep a hive-minded psychic killing machine in a cat box in my lab. More to the point, if we shared this planet with the Zerg, World Wars 1 and 2 would have had nothing to with the Germans.
..Yeah, good luck with that PETA. I'd rather not try to make nice with a mindless carnivore that swarms its prey in droves, and has no sense of mercy.
Sometimes I swear they don't even understand half the animals they defend..
Sometimes I swear they don't even understand half the animals they defend..
So we can expect PETA to be euthanising Zerglings at their headquarters and throwing the bodies in dumpsters? Maybe they'll leave that to the Zergling Liberation Front. How long until they are firebombing the CDC for doing research on flesh eating bacteria? Microbes aren't animals but they have rights too! Because ethics.
It surprises me because they apparently don't know the source material. The Zerg have never really been portrayed as "animals" but the result of a malevolent hivemind of sorts, with the zerglings and battle creatures being the extensions of the overmind, in a way sort of like how we have hands and feet.
In RL I have what is very much a "people first" mentality, BUT that doesn't mean I'm entirely callous in dealing with the enviroment or animals, I just don't think a bunch of yellow spotted frogs have more rights than humans do and I don't support dealing with social problems by creating more housing and such being derailed for their sake. That said I feel as time goes on, more of these clean energy sources come online, and we gain the technology to build our cities upwards, colonize other planets, and similar things, a lot of these problems will correct themselves along the way. Yes species might go extinct, but again... people first.
I tend to be more concerned about species that get along with us and are useful. I understand the idea of an interconnected ecosystem, but at the same time I have a hard time preserving species that would kill me without breaking a sweat. "Pity the poor, tiny, nearly invisible spider with it's acidic poison that will make your heart melt after a minute of horrible agony, and will aggressively bite anything that comes too close to it's nest..." and things like that, snakes, giant lampreys, angler fish (I mean seriously people, those things exist to give your nightmares something to be afraid of), and similar. I tend to really like big cats and other large predators as kind of an exception, but I mean even so, while I don't want them to go extinct, I don't want to preserve them to the point where I can get mauled by a Mountain Lion or Bear just wandering around. With no offense, all comments about misunderstood species, you'll notice a lot of these creatures tend to maul people horribly if they accidently get inside their enclosure ad zoos where they are used to people (and even more domesticated ones have accidents... Siegfried and Roy's white tiger mauling, comes to mind, as does a certain monkey face-devouring incident).
I guess I'm rambling, but to me I've always felt the biggest cure for the people in groups like PETA who tend to mostly be isolated hippies with white guilt complexes from waht I've seen, would be for more of them to get mauled or killed by some of these animals. I mean seriously when your a jogger that gets attacked by a Mountain Lion or whatever, it becomes seriously obvious why we've hunted them like we did. I think what we sort of need is a special PETA Bus Trip to Yellowstone, where instead of following policies the PETA members will be encouraged to get out and frolic with and feed all those cuddly bears... I mean they are used to tourists, nothing bad could possibly happen doing that....
In RL I have what is very much a "people first" mentality, BUT that doesn't mean I'm entirely callous in dealing with the enviroment or animals, I just don't think a bunch of yellow spotted frogs have more rights than humans do and I don't support dealing with social problems by creating more housing and such being derailed for their sake. That said I feel as time goes on, more of these clean energy sources come online, and we gain the technology to build our cities upwards, colonize other planets, and similar things, a lot of these problems will correct themselves along the way. Yes species might go extinct, but again... people first.
I tend to be more concerned about species that get along with us and are useful. I understand the idea of an interconnected ecosystem, but at the same time I have a hard time preserving species that would kill me without breaking a sweat. "Pity the poor, tiny, nearly invisible spider with it's acidic poison that will make your heart melt after a minute of horrible agony, and will aggressively bite anything that comes too close to it's nest..." and things like that, snakes, giant lampreys, angler fish (I mean seriously people, those things exist to give your nightmares something to be afraid of), and similar. I tend to really like big cats and other large predators as kind of an exception, but I mean even so, while I don't want them to go extinct, I don't want to preserve them to the point where I can get mauled by a Mountain Lion or Bear just wandering around. With no offense, all comments about misunderstood species, you'll notice a lot of these creatures tend to maul people horribly if they accidently get inside their enclosure ad zoos where they are used to people (and even more domesticated ones have accidents... Siegfried and Roy's white tiger mauling, comes to mind, as does a certain monkey face-devouring incident).
I guess I'm rambling, but to me I've always felt the biggest cure for the people in groups like PETA who tend to mostly be isolated hippies with white guilt complexes from waht I've seen, would be for more of them to get mauled or killed by some of these animals. I mean seriously when your a jogger that gets attacked by a Mountain Lion or whatever, it becomes seriously obvious why we've hunted them like we did. I think what we sort of need is a special PETA Bus Trip to Yellowstone, where instead of following policies the PETA members will be encouraged to get out and frolic with and feed all those cuddly bears... I mean they are used to tourists, nothing bad could possibly happen doing that....
weather forecast, slightly bombing with a high chance of falloutLysanderNemoinis said:
Ghosts are cool but i rather use some Dark Templar's or hell just hand full of zealots
Either it is deeming to the Zerg sentience, which "parts" of the swarm are (note the WOMAN'S face plastered on the box). They also don't act like cute little doggies, but giant locusts that want to do nothing but consume all the bio matter in the universe.
Let see how cuddly the Zerglings are when they are EATING YOUR FACE OFF.
This is particularly strange since they could use it as an example of "why you should not make animals test objects or breed fightings animals" and completely fit within the actual lore of the game.
Let see how cuddly the Zerglings are when they are EATING YOUR FACE OFF.
This is particularly strange since they could use it as an example of "why you should not make animals test objects or breed fightings animals" and completely fit within the actual lore of the game.
There are plenty of other feelings as well!Catrixa said:
"We need more overlords."
"An orphanage, yum"
And "OBEY THE HIVEMIND!"
Such a broad emotional range.
Credit where due, if it weren't for PETA's penchant for being a borderline terrorist organization, and that they are using this to push an agenda that is fundamentally absurd and an insult to animal rights groups everywhere, this is actually a thought out, kind of clever PR move that has ample tongue pressed firmly in cheek. This is not insufferable garbage. This is a fun spin on animal rights.
The fact that if you think about it, it doesn't make a lick of sense (seeing how killing a Zerg is more like trimming a fingernail on a giant conciousness then it is murdering an animal, and seeing how they threaten to kill far more beings, animals and humans (And protoss for that matter) alike) doesn't negate the fact that this is a well done campaign. They have screwed up WAAAY too much in the past to net any actual respect here, and it's hard to blame peoples kneejerk reaction to assume that this is stupid propaganda. But in and of itself, this is clever
The fact that if you think about it, it doesn't make a lick of sense (seeing how killing a Zerg is more like trimming a fingernail on a giant conciousness then it is murdering an animal, and seeing how they threaten to kill far more beings, animals and humans (And protoss for that matter) alike) doesn't negate the fact that this is a well done campaign. They have screwed up WAAAY too much in the past to net any actual respect here, and it's hard to blame peoples kneejerk reaction to assume that this is stupid propaganda. But in and of itself, this is clever