Well, you know, that is a very good point. I didn't think of it from that angle.
As for the whale shows, when the Danny incident first went down, his family was looking at suing the park, and frankly at the time I thought that was assinine. After all, it's not like he didn't go out of his way to put himself in the situation and get killed.
Now, I'm not so sure they weren't in the right, simply from the standpoint that these stupid whale shows don't portray whales in the way that they need to be portrayed. They show them as happy, loving trained dogs that love to make their trainers happy. Nothing could be farther from the truth, but seeing the myth Seaworld and their ilk has perpetrated, the skewed, WRONG idea about what kind of animal they really are makes me wonder if Danny (and people like him )simply had some fantasy about what swimming with them would be like. Clearly, he did. However, at this point, I have to say Seaworld is largely to blame for making him think that.
Heck, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the trainers themselves are a bit deluded.
As for the whale shows, when the Danny incident first went down, his family was looking at suing the park, and frankly at the time I thought that was assinine. After all, it's not like he didn't go out of his way to put himself in the situation and get killed.
Now, I'm not so sure they weren't in the right, simply from the standpoint that these stupid whale shows don't portray whales in the way that they need to be portrayed. They show them as happy, loving trained dogs that love to make their trainers happy. Nothing could be farther from the truth, but seeing the myth Seaworld and their ilk has perpetrated, the skewed, WRONG idea about what kind of animal they really are makes me wonder if Danny (and people like him )simply had some fantasy about what swimming with them would be like. Clearly, he did. However, at this point, I have to say Seaworld is largely to blame for making him think that.
Heck, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the trainers themselves are a bit deluded.
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