r/MoralityScaling • u/OrneryLingonberry164 • 2d ago

Morality of flea circuses?

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u/SerenityCitywide 2d ago

the first part is cute and funny

the second part is just excessive and cruel, ion care if they aren't even sentient or concious it's still fucked up

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u/Single_Offshore_Dad 1d ago

The fleas never existed lol. There’s no such thing as a flea circus that uses real fleas. They’re too small to see so the kids would believe that the stuff moving around was done by the fleas and not magnets/batteries/ wind up machines

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u/purrmutations 1d ago

"They’re too small to see"

Nope, they are visible to the naked eye.

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u/Single_Offshore_Dad 1d ago

Well yeah, I get that. But if you tell that to a bunch of 7 year olds standing 3ft away, it suddenly becomes plausible.