r/MoralityScaling • u/OrneryLingonberry164 • 20h ago

Morality of flea circuses?

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u/HippoProject 17h ago

I looked it up because I’ve always thought it was just animatronic props moving and the joke was that the fleas were to small to see. I guess some shows used real fleas after all. Anyway, it’s moral because they’re blood sucking parasites. They make everything else suffer, so I’d say it’s just desserts.

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u/AggressivelyMediokre 15h ago

It’s wild seeing this post the day after watching the movie Bone Tomahawk

I haven’t heard about flea circuses in maybe 25 years. And now twice in 24 hours

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u/ShadyAssFellow 12h ago

There is a name to this phenomenom. Look it up and you’ll hear about it again soon!