Blah blah blah, knee-jerk dogpile. Bad man! Bad man! Shit chimp, kill, kill!
Look, there’s nothing in the OP that hints at it being a comforting metaphor, and everything implying that the person honestly, genuinely believes that there is a “magical rainbow bridge” that she’s sending her pet to, and that that makes it ok to put the pet down.
That’s fine; other people have their heavens and so on. But when you take that metaphor too far by turning it into your reality, then use it to justify killing something, you’ve crossed a line.
If a father puts a bullet in his sick daughter’s head because “I’m not killing her, I’m just sending her to heaven,” can’t we agree that a line has been crossed into irrationality, with the daughter paying the price? If a muslim suicide bombs a marketplace with the justification that he’s not killing the people but “sending the infidels to be with Allah,” can we not agree that the limits of metaphor have been far exceeded and that a line has been crossed?
I genuinely feel that that’s what happened here, especially because we’re not exactly talking about a dog that savaged a child or tore out the mailman’s throat. The OP used the “Rainbow Bridge,” even saying things like “look up my old gang [of dead pets] when you’re there” and “I didn’t really feel bad about putting the dog down because he’s just going back to the Rainbow Bridge,” making it explicitly clear that this is a literal belief.
What happened to the SDMB? You used to at least be able to find an even split on most issues, especially ones like this. This shit is like living in an episode of Gilmore Girls.
Also, I just wanted to point out that not one person in this thread has actually tackled my OP in any meaningful way, instead resorting to all sorts of “Fuck you, Doodz!!!11111” and dredging up old threads of mine. Way to go, guys!
Would you believe that I used to refer to the SDMB as a sort of “Mensa for smart people?”
There is a difference between a euphemism and a rationalisation, at least when it comes to having pets “put down”. Dogs are not people: comparing a harmless metaphor for the death of a loved pet with making excuses for political murder is inane and offensive. This is quite possibly the most tasteless and stupid analogy I have ever read. You are a stupid little fuck.
Well, a good Pit would have included you researching **PapSett’s ** posting history. You would have found that she loves her pets. Having pets go to the Rainbow Bridge is a substitute for death that many people use. And there was nothing in PapSett’s thread to indicate that she was using death as a punishment for the dog; just that it was unfortunate that this dog had issues that couldn’t be resolved and her obvious sorrow that the best course of action–for everyone–is putting the dog down. You mischaracterized PapSett’s thread and her use of the Rainbow Bridge.
This is a poorly thought out Pitting and the Pitizens are unimpressed.
VCO3, when everyone else is saying you’re wrong (and allow me to join everyone else in saying you’re wrong) you should pull back for a second and consider the possibility.
No. Actually pretty much everybody in this thread (including me who had no idea how stupid your old threads were, until now) pointed out that she had a good reason for putting down her dog. Backed up by professional opinion. And the *everything * in that thread hints at it being a comforting metaphor.
But if it helps I’m prefectly prepared to say "fuck you " now.
Look, VCO3, there’s a time and place for everything. I’ve made my position on things like afterlives clear, and if she had opened up a thread called “How many of you believe dead pets go to a magical rainbow bridge”, I’d be the first to rip into her.
In this case, she opened a thread on how she had to kill a pet she liked to protect her other pets, and possibly people. I would no more pit her for that thread than I would if she had one about how her grandpa recently died and went to heaven. Browbeating grieving people is just not the way things should be done.
It wasn’t the Rainbow Bridge that justified putting her dog down, you fuckhead, it was the dog’s attack on another dog and agressively behavior towards her and a consultation with an expert. She used the RB as a way to comfort herself after she’d decided to put the dog down.
) defending her particular use of New Age glurge.