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Olen 2021-12-27 08:01:18
Some thoughts on "Dolphin Bay"
I watched "Dolphin Bay" last night and was moved by the sensational scenes shot by the director. But the more I saw it later, the more I felt something was wrong. After falling asleep, tossing and turning around, I have been thinking about this film and can't fall asleep.
Let me first give a... -
Grady 2021-12-27 08:01:18
The small moment of being touched
Eating meat is never a fault, just like a lion cannot be blamed because it is a carnivore.
There is no right or wrong in the world, and commenting on right or wrong should not be the cause of human sorrow or joy.
Compared with carnivores, humans should be thankful that they are omnivores, otherwise...
Paul Watson
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Osbaldo 2022-03-23 09:02:27
2009 Sundance Film Festival Documentary Audience Choice Award.
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Elouise 2022-03-26 09:01:08
A powerful film, but the subject matter is very immature. The bottom line of this film is to appeal to: 1. Oppose the killing of dolphins? (Just because dolphins are intelligent creatures? So livestock, poultry, and crops with lower intelligence deserve to be chopped up as human food?) 2. Oppose the inhumane killing of dolphins? 3. Oppose eating poisonous dolphin meat? 4. Or something else?
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John Potter: As a scientist, I'm trained to recognize intelligence through objective measures... tool use, cognitive processes, and so on. As a human being, when I see a dolphin looking at me and his eyes tracking me and I lock eyes with that animal, there's a human response that makes it undeniable that I'm connecting with an intelligent being.
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John Potter: It sometimes amazes me that the only language which has been extensively taught to dolphins is a version of American Sign Language, which, of course, you use your hands, so you have all these wonderful signals, and people use their hands to give messages to dolphins. And this somehow kind of misses the point because dolphins don't have hands, so this is inherently a very one-way process. And it's this anthropomorphic, "We have something to teach them or control them," and perhaps we ought to be looking at what they can give to us.
