I hate all zoos, circuses and animal amusement parks, such as Sea World.

[DirkGently]

5. It can be "pure evil," or close enough. Not always though.

SeaWorld keeping huge, intelligent mammals in small tanks, showing and breeding them for profit, or circuses dragging chained elephants and declawed bears around the country to performs tricks is offensive and wrong, and should stop.

But I do think there is a mutual benefit to truly well-managed zoos or animal refuges that actually protect animals from man, while helping instill appreciation in those that come to see them. If we didn't have any of that, there are any number of species that would be worse off than they are today, or extinct.

We can't get out of interacting with the other species on the planet. We're already interfering -- altering the landscape, the food supply, the air and the water. We have to interfere again to protect other creatures from ourselves.

Small dirty zoos and zillion-dollar Orca shows covering up abused and miserable animals is not the way to do it. But we can be better than that. We have to.