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02-16-2005, 02:55 AM
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To me it doesn't really represent any more of an ethical dilemma than, say, selling guns does. They're no more endangered than many other species we keep, as far as I know. My question is simply, why bother when the animal will likely die within weeks, and when it could quite easily kill you, your dog, cat or your child.
What disappoints me is that Oceans would try to push these on their (assumedly) less aware clientele. But it doesn't suprise me. I believe the octopuses that the RC ceph-heads keep are being raised in captivity (but not bred). Extremely unlikely, but I would still support a licensing system for keepers of wild-caught livestock. Watch "Deep Trouble" from the oft-mentioned BBC Blue Planet series (the last disc). Quote:
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-Quinn Man, n. ...His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth, and Canada. - A. Bierce, Devil's Dictionary, 1906 
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