A Valued Member of the Seaworld Team

"Meghan McArdle reports on the Seaworld press conference this afternoon about the killer whale that killed a trainer earlier this week:

When asked by a reporter about the fact that this same whale has apparently killed three other people, he repeatedly makes the irrelevant point that it only killed one other person at Seaworld . . . small comfort to the folks who take their tykes there. He also repeatedly refers to the whale as a valued member of the Seaworld team, which seems to me to be taking animal rights a little far. After all, a valued member of the Seaworld team who kept killing people would open up the company to enormous liability dangers.

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By Joseph Bottum

My comment: Admit it, when you saw the title of this post, you first thought of the poor woman trainer who had died. Right?