Originally Posted by
dorothybaez
But I digress. Even as a 10 year old (and I'm 39 now) I would have fought, scratched, and screamed bloody murder if anyone so much as suggested that any living being get thrown away like garbage.
That being said, it seems to me like these were girls who had not been taught to be assertive, but to blindly obey "authority." Scary. Especially since an animal got thrown in the trash because of it.
Exactly, I dont know about blindly obeying authority though, as they were supposedly given multiple opportunities to wait for their dad to come back to get the turtle, and insisted on being on the flight. They were the ones who chose to throw away the turtle. It just shows a callous lack of respect for another living being to me for whatever selfish reason (again i ask, why did they have to be on that particular flight?) they had. They seemed to be quite assertive for what i would consider all the wrong reasons.