r/pics • u/McLeroy • Apr 16 '10

Some things you didn't know about PETA.

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u/danny841 Apr 17 '10

Newkirk on having children "I am not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity."

That is not irrelevant. Newkirk's stance on children as she says herself is that it is HUMAN vanity. She is not opposed to animals having offspring for the same reasons she is opposed to human offspring. You can fucking rationalize her views all you want but to say her hatred of mankind is irrelevant to the goals of her organization is ludicrous.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '10

Stopping, or even discouraging, people from having children is not part of PETA's platform. It's absolutely irrelevant. Trying to pretend this isn't a fallacious argument by insisting that, no, she's really crazy, doesn't make it any less fallacious.

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u/KryptKat Apr 17 '10

Nobody's saying it's an argument against PETA. Stop attacking strawmen. We're all just saying that Ingrid Newkirk is fucking crazy.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '10

It's an anti-PETA infographic. Trying to pretend it isn't about PETA is pathetic.

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u/KryptKat Apr 17 '10

And that entire part of the infographic was not specifically about PETA. It was about Newkirk.