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Originally Posted by murg
In a way, I have to agree with this.
Let's look at the facts: whales live underwater, sound travels far underwater, whales have good hearing, whales generate sound (and presumably understand these sounds), whales are allegedly intelligent, whales aren't on Twitter or Facebook.
How much intelligence does it take to get from 'hear boat' to 'swim away'? Or even from 'hear boat' to 'dive, swim behind boat, surface, moon boat'? Cockroaches have it down: 'see light' leads immediately to 'run and hide'. And they're smaller than the barnacles on a whale.
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How much intelligence does it take for a species not to destroy its own ecosystem. More than we have, it seems. By that token, whales are brighter than humans. Maybe they should eat us.
But yeah, this puts me off of Kobo. But then how many ethical companies are there? Certainly not Amazon or Apple, who treat their temp staff like slave labor.
The sad thing is, many people don't give a damn.