PETA, sounds like a social disease.

Apparently, one of my cousins has decided that it's a good idea to join PETA and join in some protest rally in the US.

Well, if she feels the need to treat animals ethically, she can go right ahead and do so, but I will in no way hesitate to point out any lack of ethics she displays in pursuit of this particular goal. I've heard they've become less militant and ridiculous in their methods, but they still leave a bad taste in my mouth.

My cousin has a habit of being a tad too strenuous in pursuing her desires - this includes her eating habits, and her methods in trying to sway others to share in her way of thinking. She gave up her apartment and moved back in with her mother in order to save up for this trip down south. Extreme. She is not entirely unlike what I'm told my sister is like in that respect, although my sister was apparently more into protesting for the sake of protesting; protesting because it was cool; protesting because she thought it would make her a rebel; protesting to get attention.

Protesting was never my deal. Demonstrations were things I left to others. I donate, I write, I talk, I sign petitions, but I don't throw paint on coats, chain myself to trees, pie politicians, or put myself bodily between the subject and weaponry.

Getting arrested serves nothing, and results only in hampering your ability to affect reasonable change. It also throws a bucket of very chilly water on the heat of later reputations, if the people you're attempting to sway in a sensible fashion, find out you got arrested for clubbing seal hunters. They tend not to take you quite so seriously after that.