3. TIL PETA euthanizes 96 percent of the animals that it "rescues" every year.

TIL PETA euthanizes 96 percent of the animals that it "rescues" every year.

Organizations are always held responsible for the things their members do, and they always have been. Anonymous gets in trouble as a whole for it's worst hackers. The Salvation Army and Chick-fil-a get a lot of flack because of how a few of their members decided to portray themselves and the organizations as being anti-homosexual. Insane Asylums get a bad reputation because there have been people maliciously held there in the past even though they are designed specifically to help and help millions. Motorcycle Gangs in general get a bad reputation from a few people who used them as protection to outlet violence, but most aren't bad at all. PETA gets a bad reputation because some of their members are extreme, even though most members just want everyone to treat animals better. All insurance companies tend to have a bad reputation because a few of their associates try to cheat people out of what they're owed to help their numbers, but for the most part insurance companies pay what is due in accidents.

It's just how it has always worked, whether you like it or not. It would not have been a local news story about PETA if this were not the case; it would have been a story focused only on the two people who did it. No one here is saying PETA is paying these people to steal dogs and kill them or anything. But if a PETA marked vehicle is involved, there is no doubt that they will receive a small portion of the blame regardless of the organization's literal involvement in the situation.

As a last note, I never meant to say you were specifically invested, and was using a hypothetical statement as a predicate for my argument. I'll restate it in another way so you can understand my meaning:

"If I was personally invested in the reputation of PETA, I would suggest that I worry about what I can personally do to help the cause that I believe in instead of arguing about the small details of a situation that gives my organization bad press. It's good people doing good things that make organizations earn a good overall reputation, regardless of the bad eggs."

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