A dolphin bashing thread is the last thing I expected. I know that it's mostly joking, but still.
I've been on the water off and on most of my life, professionally at times. I've yet to meet anyone that didn't love dolphins, until here. Very weird. I guess, as you say, it's a knee jerk reaction. Maybe they are city folks.
"I've yet to meet anyone that didn't love dolphins, until here."
Loving dolphins doesn't necessarily mean that one is willing, or believes he has a right, to go halfway around the world and tell other people what they can and can't do.