The ethics of penguin smacking?

[m-jean03]

Am I killing these penguins or just smacking them senseless? I might have trouble with killing innocent penguins!!

[Don Claybrook]

1. Neither. You're giving them wings to fly.

Penguins are flightless, of course, so with your Yeti, you're letting them experience the magic of flight, if only briefly.

[m-jean03]

7. OK -- I'm going with this

However I do wish everyone would provide some documentation for their claims.

[Kamika]

2. I think you're smacking them for some norwegian fur traders

They take the smacked penguins and skin them

[m-jean03]

3. jeez Kamika

You just *had* to say that!! Now look what you've done, you made me cry.:spank:

The experience of penguin smacking is one that doesn't leave you, you know! I'll be haunted for years by nightmares and flashbacks unless someone tells Kamika she is wrong.

[Kamika]

4. No it's true

I read it in National Geographics

[m-jean03]

5. But why would the fur traders want them?

Penguins don't have fur...

[kiahzero]

6. How much do they pay the Yeti? (n/t)

[Melsky]

8. depends on distance

The yeti gets paid more the further the penguin is smacked.

[Blue-Jay]

9. I'm smacking the penguin right now!

Wait. You guys are talking about a game?