About PETA >> FAQs >> General
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“How can you justify spending your time helping animals when there are so many people who need help?”
There are very serious problems in the world that deserve our attention, and cruelty to animals is one of them. We should try to alleviate suffering wherever we can. Helping animals is not any more or less important than helping human beings—they are both important. Animal suffering and human suffering are interconnected.
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Now obviously, they want to help humans just as much as animals, even though they don't show it in any real way. The hilarity is that there is a FAQ which explicitly states that people have the right of thought, but not action. In essence, "go ahead and think what you want, but you don't have the right to do it because PETA says you're wrong". Pretty much if I say they are wrong for supporting terrorist organizations and then comparing their actions to that of the French Resistance, I am consider a monster and receive death threats.
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Oh, and to get back on the threads topic, yes, by definition PETA is a cult, is it not?
define:cult
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Cult typically refers to a cohesive social group devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture considers outside the mainstream, with a notably positive or negative popular perception.
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