Upsetting? Should the seal be a vegetarian?

I absolutely LOVE penguins, but this is ridiculous. That's what seals eat. If the penguins didn't die, the seals would. Nature is vicious. But this is really interesting. The guy's a reporter. He's supposed to tell you how animals behave, not pass human moral judgement on something that is a centuries-old fact of nature.

FYI: I'm a vegetarian, tree-hugging, bleeding-heart liberal.

Yeah --- I am not upset by this either, what up?

I always thought March of the Penguins should have been called Sucks to be Penguins.

Meerkat Manor would be "Nothing Good Happens to Meerkats."

This is what happens when, like Chuck, one becomes too urbanized and domesticated. One becomes “upset” by things like nature and food chains.

Chuck, you realize that all those penguins eat other living things too… right? Are you “indifferent” to the plight of the krill?

These seals lack the capacity to be cruel. They're not people; they don't have souls. They simply are, and any cruelty is imposed by the observer.

"'What are you?' 'I'm an otter.' 'And what do you do?' 'I swim around on my back and do cute little human tricks with my hands.' '...You may go. And what are you?' 'I'm a cow' 'Get on the truck.' 'But I'm an animal!' 'You're a baseball glove, now get on the truck!'"

Why would, we who are predators, empathize more with the prey than with our fellow predators?

Charles is quite alienated from the non-human world. One of his blind spots. All brilliant people have some.

The real question should be: Was the photographer justified in allowing the seal to offer up so many penguins just so that the photographer could get an amazing video? Further, was the photographer justified in interfering with the natural course of events, which is forbidden by the National Geographic?

Charles, Charles, Charles . . . penguins are nothing more than overfed crows in little tuxedos. When they get hip to your philosophy of Density, move to the City, and shit herring shit all over your Sidewalks, you'll thank the predators for thinning them out first.