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"Don't show the footage; it's too shocking."
Objection in disguise
They look like concern for strategy or for the animals, but become a ready excuse to change nothing.
Why it is weak
At some point this caution becomes an inverted priority: it treats the discomfort of the viewer as more important than the suffering of those being filmed.
The gap between a statistic and a concrete image is exactly what switches empathy on or off. Always hiding that reality reinforces the mechanism that sustains indifference.
How to say it better
Ask which approach reduces the most suffering, not which is most comfortable to defend.