Holding Animals In Kant's Blackfish

After watching Blackfish, I think that Kant would say that going to Sea World, let alone holding animals in a confined space, is not morally correct. Kant’s moral philosophy is that one is doing something for the right reasons. Sea World is not holding animal’s captive for the right reason. Sure, it’s fun to go and look at all the animals and it can, in some ways, be a good educational experience, for people of all ages. However, the fact that we are putting these animals in a type of “cage” and taking them out of their natural habitat is not necessarily humane and it shows a lack of respect for animals. Therefore, due to the fact that these animals are put into a zoo for the mere fact that humans can go and look at them is not something that
Kant would find morally correct. To me, I believe that we have a moral obligation to these mammals to let them go back to their natural habitat. Just because you create an exhibit in the zoo that is the exact replica of where they live out in the wild doesn’t make the situation any better. To add onto this, is isn’t the exact replica. Animals in the wild find their prey through other animals out there. It’s sad to see that animals sometime kill other animal for food, but that’s what their natural habitat is. It’s not like that in the zoo. To add onto this, in the wild, they form packs. All animals form their packs in different ways, but there are packs for each group. Putting them in a zoo doesn’t allow them to make a pack, you create it for them, which I don’t think is morally correct. At that point, you’re choosing who they spend the rest of their lives with which, although their animals, doesn’t make it okay. In sum, we do have a moral obligation to animals in the zoo, and I don’t think it should be the notion that we should “take better care of them” or “give them more space in the zoo”. Rather, it should be about releasing them into the wild, in their natural habitat, where they belong.