# Legal to Wish Death On Posters' Pets In Pit? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 22, 2005, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-to-wish-death-on-posters-pets-in-pit/309371 "2005-06-22T15:13:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-to-wish-death-on-posters-pets-in-pit/309371/1 "2005-06-22T15:13:02Z")
Subject says it all. I know I can’t wish death on Poster A in the pit. Can I wish death on Poster A’s adorable pet cat, Fluffy A? ---
**Author:** ![Ragiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ragiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ragiel)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-to-wish-death-on-posters-pets-in-pit/309371/2 "2005-06-22T15:32:30Z")
Some pet people would become more distraught over an attack on their pets than one directed to themselves. ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-to-wish-death-on-posters-pets-in-pit/309371/3 "2005-06-22T15:34:13Z")
I guess my question is, why would you want to? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-to-wish-death-on-posters-pets-in-pit/309371/4 "2005-06-22T15:44:11Z")
Well, I can’t say I personally would want to. While I can be a snippy, queeny little bitch with a bad case of chronic sarcastic disorder, I swore off pitting anyone who was going to respond online several years back. Life is too short to spend any more of it angry than I already do, and getting angry because of an online flame war is an anger management incident that is wholly avoidable. I’m really not witty enough to do it for humor. I also don’t let anyone online get under my skin. I was asking more out of my question for abstract knowledge than anything else. ---
**Author:** ![SisterCoyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@SisterCoyote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SisterCoyote)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-to-wish-death-on-posters-pets-in-pit/309371/5 "2005-06-22T15:57:56Z")
Okay, just curious. I couldn’t come up with a single instance where I would wish death on a pet that wasn’t already incurably suffering, is all. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-to-wish-death-on-posters-pets-in-pit/309371/6 "2005-06-22T18:40:59Z")
You know, for a lot of people, pets are “the children of the heart.” And just like children, there are people who take offense at any anything even close to what you’re proposing. Why would you want to do that, even, to hurt someone’s sensibilities like that? This is not the home of happiness and light, but if you have a disagreement with someone you should be able to communicate in such a way that calling down death and destruction on someone and all they possess should not be in your game plan. your humble TubaDiva ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-to-wish-death-on-posters-pets-in-pit/309371/7 "2005-06-22T19:46:52Z")
> [@SisterCoyote](#): > > I couldn’t come up with a single instance where I would wish death on a pet that wasn’t already incurably suffering, is all. [How about this?](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/04/MNGCUD3O661.DTL&hw=pit+bull&sn=010&sc=656) I love pets, but I could see wishing death on a vicious animal. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-to-wish-death-on-posters-pets-in-pit/309371/8 "2005-06-24T17:38:09Z")
“Chronic sarcastic disorder.” NOW I know what I’ve been suffering from. Is there a Latin name? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-to-wish-death-on-posters-pets-in-pit/309371/9 "2005-06-24T18:10:37Z")
People would just think you a nasty, hateful person and not listen to your valid criticism then, I would think. ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-to-wish-death-on-posters-pets-in-pit/309371/10 "2005-06-24T18:14:09Z")
I burning your dog. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-to-wish-death-on-posters-pets-in-pit/309371/11 "2005-06-24T18:29:27Z")
I’ve been wishing an agonizing death on the hamsters for years. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-to-wish-death-on-posters-pets-in-pit/309371/12 "2005-06-24T20:20:29Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > I’ve been wishing an agonizing death on the hamsters for years. :eek: It is _expressly_ forbidden to wish death on the hampsters! ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/legal-to-wish-death-on-posters-pets-in-pit/309371/13 "2005-06-24T21:05:38Z")
True. We really don’t want any laundry-hamper-dwelling critters dying and stinking up the office.