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Originally Posted by BigBen
Hey, you want to protest the seal hunt? I am calling you lazy. You are a lazy protester that is taking the easy moral high ground. You want to impress me? Try and save a rain forest. Save a snail that is endangered by land developers. Take the cameras to a veal processing plant, and tell everyone not to eat veal. Take an unpopular stand in popular times. Do something that others aren't.
If Paul McCartney shows up to your protest, you need to find a more radical cause.
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I love you, BigBen.
And, to stay topical, I don't really care about the seals. Steps are being taken to insure that they die in a manner that doesn't involve torture, and the population isn't at risk for endangerment\extinction, so I do not care.
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