{"id":193,"date":"2010-02-26T11:06:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T11:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/02\/and-thats-why-they-call-them-killer-whales.html"},"modified":"2010-02-26T11:06:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T11:06:58","slug":"and-thats-why-they-call-them-killer-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/02\/and-thats-why-they-call-them-killer-whales.html","title":{"rendered":"And that’s why they call them killer whales"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jim Nash states the bleeding obvious.<\/a> Excerpt:<\/p>\n

You take 32 feet of muscle, teeth and brains out of the ocean, put it in a featureless tank the size of Graceland, force it to act like an idiot in public, and it’ll drown a captor.
\n…It’s terrible that the trainer was killed, but unless she was less intelligent than the animals she prodded, she knew that keeping orcas captive was wrong and stupid.
\nIt’s a miracle this doesn’t happen more often. I’d like to think there are some whales in Orlando right now saying to each other, “Yeah, he’s a jerk, but Tilikum has a point. Next one that stands on me won’t need shoes ever again.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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