On a moral continuum many issues overlap and create a moral domino effect in society. The moral domino in this issue is:
  • awareness of the cruelty and inhumane reality of captivity
  • opposition to more captive whales and dolphins being brought into Stanley Park
  • support for safe rehabilitation into the wild of suitable candidates
  • opposing the killing of these beings in the wild (especially the industrial profit driven killing)
  • concern for the protection of the global and regional habitat of whales and dolphins.

    People know intuitively that it is wrong to kidnap highly intelligent social beings, such as whales and dolphins from their families , and to keep them imprisoned in small pools for the sake of human fun, profit and education.

    The Humane Society of the United States writes in a 1999 booklet "The Case Against Marine Mammals in Captivity":

    "...confining small cetaceans (orcas and bottlenose dolphins) in a pool that is at best only six or seven times their length...is inhumane at nearly inconceivable level."
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