PETA are ethical

It seems that we have finally found the fundamental difference in our views of ethics. You view ethics as an extension of what you financially support even if you do not actively partake in it. However, I must agree with you here; ethics are the concern of what one is doing to encourage the difference between right and wrong to be seen.I shall begin with rebuttals before I move on to the constructive.First of all, concentration camps treated humans like animals. There was literally no better treatment of them so from the point of view of treatment there is a perfectly logical progression form the concentration camp to a slaughterhouse of cows. It is nothing but an effective analogy, there is nothing unethical about it. Every analogy can offend someone, somehow. You can compare a musician to God; theists get offended, you can compare a fly to a pest; Jains get offended (Jains are people following the religion of Jainism where it believed all animals are absolutely equal). In fact some people might look at the analogy suggested by PETA and be offended that people dare to compare the disgusting race of humanity to a race as peaceful as the cow (this isn't sarcasm there are genuinely people who would pertain such a view). So my point is that any use of an analogy so as to justify PETA being unethical is irrelevant since all analogies can somehow be twisted to offend someone so you might as well say that anyone who uses an analogy is unethical, which in my opinion is a very juvenile way to furcate the world by ethics.Secondly, you raise the point of humans being superior to animals merely because we are smarter, more determined, and have more knowledge. A simple point to deny is you say 'strength' now unless you mean strength of character I believe it is very blatant that we are far from being a strong race on the scale of all races. In fact the majority of animals we eat could defeat us if we fought without weapons. The main point I was trying to make was that PETA and you are both ethical, your ethic is not more or less right than theirs. PETA believe humans and animals to be equal you believe us to be superior PETA and you have different views but both are ethical since they clearly don't violate any moral codes and instead are moral codes themselves.Thirdly, I would just like to point out that PETA might see all domestication of pets as wrong but the only pets that they physically remove from homes are that of neglected or abused animals. Therefore, despite their ideal of taking all animals and letting them free what they are actually doing is ethical because in practise they realise it is silly to remove a dog from a loving home. If your dream is anarchy, you are unlikely to actually let everybody do what they want, you'd only actually free the people you feel deserve it. One ideal or one quote doesn't define an organisation as a whole but if you must pick a quote then see their motto: "Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment." source: http://en.wikipedia.org...On another note, you did not set exact parameters of the debate so I don't know if using a video is an illegal move but I believe that if you want to use the quote ""I think it would be a great thing if all of these fast-food outlets, and these slaughterhouses, and these laboratories, and the banks that fund them exploded tomorrow. I think it's perfectly appropriate for people to take bricks and toss them through the windows, and everything else along the line. Hallelujah to the people who are willing to do it." you must first watch this: http://www.youtube.com... if videos are not allowed, I apologise but to understand exactly what PETA want to see explode you must understand how unethical the enemy of PETA is. When we killed Saddam Hussein or Osama Bin Laden, two people who genuinely treated their victims far nicer than animals in slaughterhouses and fast-food owned farms do, no one saw the government as unethical and they are humans. However, when PETA want to use similar measures against the people who they see as terrorists, we suddenly blurt 'UNETHICAL MONSTERS'! If the hypocrisy is not apparent to you yet, then watch the video, it is more proof than you shall ever need.PETA might support their 'brotherly' corporations but that, by no means, suggests that they support the way they do things. If your son, that you raised, grows up to have similar views as you on the cure of a disease and so you invest in him to cure a disease but then he tortures animals and kills competitors to cure it, are you unethical for loving him for the cure? For continually funding him hoping that he finds the cure and can assist the human race no matter what? Are you unethical for not being involved with what he does only the cure? If you answer yes, then it is you who is sorely mistaken in the understand of ethics. One ethical person can be friends with a million rapists, their best friend can be a psychopathic serial killer with paedophilic tendencies, and yet if they both work together to an ethical cause and if the friend helps their serial killing, paedophilic friend towards the same course I do not see how the ethical friend suddenly is unethical. PETA fund ALF to save animals, ALF use that funding to save animals. The issue with ALF is, patronisingly, an issue with ALF! Not an issue with PETA.Violence to get what you want, in the premises of this debate can be considered unethical. Nonetheless, PETA are not violent. They may be very aggressive with unauthorised collection of stray animals, such as Jerry Greenwald, but aggression doesn't mean they are unethical it means they as passionate and ruthless with being ethical at any cost.In conclusion, PETA are very ethical people with a great passion for the freedom and saving of animal lives. What the people who they fund for their cause choose to do is nothing to do with PETA, PETA fund animal savers of all types. You forgot the fact that, regarding the 2001, Earth Liberation Front involving ALF, PETA spokesperson Newkirk states "The donation was a mistake, and the money had been intended for public education about destruction of habitat" source: http://en.wikipedia.org... (click on the subtitle 'Positions' for the quote in the second or third paragraph).If you have any emotion, any empathy and any moral codes. You would see that PETA are a very ethical organisation.