The Grand Canyon was also not designed. Words do have lots of meanings. Design actually has a few. This isn’t one of them.

But if you really want to get into the realm of what words mean, you actually can humiliate a shark (living or dead). Your understanding of the word is clearly limited to “to cause one to feel…

There’s a difference between defending the conduct and pointing out that someone made a very stupid comment about it.

Lol, I approve.

Entirely true.

Okay. I am wrong. There is nothing wrong with killing an animal and using its body for mindless and cheap humor, and I was probably the only person on earth who though that kind of thing was problematic before you set me straight with these examples. You have won. Congratulations.

we don’t treat corpses of any living things as objects of humor

So, there’s a few different ways we could look at that example. Let’s break them down!

The man is simulating a sex act with the shark, not posing nude with the shark. This is not debatable.

I really didn’t originally mean to suggest he should be charged with a crime; just that he ought to be subject to people’s opinions and reactions to this kind of behavior. (Now that you mention it though, I doubt it’s legal in all cases for a grown adult to strip naked and simulate a sex act on a live animal. I don’t…

I am about as unsentimental a person as I’ve encountered, including the “too soon” Deadspin commenters, to the point where I begin to wonder if I’m a socio and/or psychopath. Still, I understand that the living are allowed to feel sympathy and offense at the humiliation of the dead, be they animal or human. I’ve…

Designed?

Between sharks having no concept of Twitter or the English language and wolves having no thumbs and no Pro Bowl appearances, I’ve learned a lot about animals in 2017.

I suppose your quibble with word choice is valid according to the letter of the law. However the spirit of what she’s asking is whether it is acceptable human behavior to be making outrageous attempt at physical comedy out of the death of an animal like this. There is, I suppose, room for disagreement; maybe you think…

5) That shark was racist and WAY behind on child support payments. Sooo...

I feel like this has been pointed out a few times on the other thread about this. I guess if you really want to be a stickler for language you’re right. Ultimately it just feels like you’re trying to deflect from the fact that there’s a naked dude dry humping a dead shark. Just have to ask, have you been on a boat…

Oh good, I thought there might be no one here justifying fucking a shark’s corpse. Crisis averted.

I feel the same. I’m wondering how in the actual fuck this arrest actually happened? These are the signs we’re supposed to look for when watching out for police states to take hold. This is bad. This is “get arrested just for opposing” bad.

I would like to take this moment to remind all the women who marched to find out when elections large and small are happening in your town/county/state.

Dear every democrat who didn’t vote,

I... I’m at a loss. I am a policy attorney and I have been at many congressional hearings (not confirmation hearings, I’ll give you, but still). If folks get loud or out of hand, they are simply gavelled and escorted out.