Being an employee of MySQL (past and present), every time I see something related to dolphins it catches my eye - and I just came across this:
Scientists say dolphins should be treated as ‘non-human persons’
The treatment of dolphins has long been an issue for me, I utterly despise some of the things I have seen, and read about. MySQL’s dolphin - Sakila - has always been seen as a symbol of freedom. This is marred by reality, hopefully this will change:
“The researchers argue that their work shows it is morally unacceptable to keep such intelligent animals in amusement parks or to kill them for food or by accident when fishing. Some 300,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises die in this way each year.”
Some other things in the article also ring true for me, in other ways. …
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