US animal-rights extremists firebomb scientists' home, car

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080808-us-animal-rights-extremists-firebomb-scientists-home-car.html

by troystribling • 18 years ago

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holdenk• 18 years ago

sadpanda :( Using violence to make a point about animal rights seems a little odd...

cstejerean• 18 years ago

I'm pretty sure some people just enjoy the violence. The animal rights is likely just an excuse.

ivank• 18 years ago

Why is extremism always so misallocated?

gukjoon• 18 years ago

To be an extremist, you need to be pretty damn irrational. I assume that the correct allocation would be something at least partially rational?

I mean... firebombing houses is probably not going to help us find the Higgs boson.

pragmatic• 18 years ago

Humans are animals. Burning people with fire constitutes harming animals. Seeking to help animals by hurting other animals seems illogical. Oh wait... (Is this hacker news?)

ia• 18 years ago

firefox, tux, gnu, tomcat, leopard, mongrel, ocaml, hardy heron, etc. i guess it can be considered hacker news...

kirse• 18 years ago

This is classic PETA (or ALF) about 7:35 in - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ijLulwUTY

Alex3917• 18 years ago

I believe they were animal-welfare extremists and not animal-rights extremists, unless they were fighting for the vote.

biohacker42• 18 years ago

Nice! First of all firebombing - I can not put into words the stupidity. Second, if you are going to do that why don't you start with puppy mills or factory style pig/chicken farms.

Oh I know why, because these people are beyond stupid.

US animal-rights extremists firebomb scientists' home, car

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