# Human-Animal Moral Code

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-animal-moral-code/386731>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [January 4, 2007, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-animal-moral-code/386731 "2007-01-04T21:09:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-animal-moral-code/386731/41 "2007-01-06T00:17:36Z")

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[QUOTE=The Flying Dutchman]  
So is having the shits for humans Do you got to the doctor every time you are afflicted?  
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As pointed out, this is not the greatest analogy in the world.

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> With regard to [http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body\_feline\_house\_soiling.html](http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body_feline_house_soiling.html)

Yep. I don’t think I said different - in fact I said cats can act up when stressed. It may well have been a “contemptuous” gesture ( to graft a human emotion on to it ) by the cat. However if you had read a little more closely and clicked the link:

[http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body\_feline\_lower\_urinary\_tract\_dis.html](http://www.marvistavet.com/html/body_feline_lower_urinary_tract_dis.html)

You would have gotten more detail on potential medical issues.

I’m not saying your cat DID have a medical problem. I’m saying it MIGHT have had a medical problem and it would have behooved you to check this out before leaping to conclusions. Your sin IMHO was one of assumption and we all know what happens when you ass-u-me.

I also would have at least made an attempt to try work through any behavioral issue for the sake of your other family members, but that’s just me.

- Tamerlane

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**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-animal-moral-code/386731/42 "2007-01-06T00:24:16Z")

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[QUOTE=The Flying Dutchman]  
So is having the shits for humans Do you got to the doctor every time you are afflicted?  
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Did your parents give you away when you had diarhhea as a child? If not, shouldn’t they have?

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**Author:** ![Leviosaurus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Leviosaurus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leviosaurus)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-animal-moral-code/386731/43 "2007-01-06T00:34:06Z")

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[QUOTE=Contrapuntal]  
Did your parents give you away when you had diarhhea as a child? If not, shouldn’t they have?  
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Maybe that’s what they were trying for by giving him the (potentially hungry) german shepherd. 😃

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**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/human-animal-moral-code/386731/44 "2007-01-06T01:04:20Z")

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[QUOTE=The Flying Dutchman]  
So is having the shits for humans Do you got to the doctor every time you are afflicted?  
[/QUOTE]  
Did your parents give you away when you had diarhhea as a child? If not, shouldn’t they have?

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