Thinking PeTA Thoughts

Right, so I said I'd do something here... and I will, but first, a thought:

What do you think about things you don't normally think about?

Not much, I'm guessing, which is exactly how much I thought about PeTA for the longest while. They struck me as attention grabbers who don't actually do anything worthwhile, and that was all I ever thought about them for the longest time because I've never actually bothered to look into what they are about and what they do. PeTA doesn't cross into my circle of interests, so I can safely ignore them and not think about them.

But then MovieBob did an episode of the Big Picture on them, and now I'm thinking about them.



Gruesome stuff, and counter-intuitive at that. And now I'm thinking about PeTA, digging into some of the things they've done, most of which is just as horrible as what Bob decided to put into his show. Now I don't think of PeTA as just loons who pull attention stunts for money they don't do anything with, I think of them as loons who pull attention stunts for money that they spend on killing animals by the thousands.

It's funny, isn't it? How little we actually think about what we see. I thought of PeTA as bad, and thought a lot of what they did was bad, but genocidal wasn't anywhere in there because that's not what they're about, or at least, I thought that wasn't what they were about. I didn't put any thought into my decision on them beyond the few facts I've learned over the years. How long did I take to form that decision, anyway? When did I form my opinion on PeTA, and why did I just leave it at that and move on?

Just something I've been thinking about, is all.