Killing a puppy is no big deal? It tells us a lot about them. It tells us even more about you. It was a depraved act. I am sure glad you approve.
I don’t think the existence of a law is, in and of itself, a justification for that law.
Oh, look, gonzo’s here. I thought I felt a drop in the mean IQ of this thread.
Umm, why would they be fans of a band who writes almost exclusively about how terrible animal torture is?
Yes, that doesn’t make killing one animal different from another animal of similar brain complexity. Some people have gotten special penalties passed for a specific animal, but that doesn’t change the morality of it, just the legal ramifications. I’m speaking of morality.
I don’t think it is either. But one way killing a puppy is different from slaughtering a chicken is that you might get arrested and put in jail for killing a puppy. You might not. I asked up thread about that because I really don’t know where the line is drawn. Clearly, I can kill my pet if I want to. I can even get a doctor to do it for me. It seems, though, that shooting a puppy ten times with a .22 to make a belt out of it crosses that line. At least in Muskogee Oklahoma. And I’m going to go out on a limb here and guess that Muskogee is not at the forefront of the animal rights movement.
I hardly think that a cow has similar brain complexity to a dog, but leaving that aside, riddling a cow with bullets in order to slaughter it for human consumption is most certainly not done ever day. I suspect that too would be against the law.
I’m saying it takes a certain person to do this. I’m not weighing in on the value one animal’s life or another.
I personally admit to being hypocrite by saying I don’t want to kill the chicken I eat. Now that I think about it, the harder it is to defend. But let’s not kid ourselves, this was done with malice, and lack of empathy. Do some farmers get the jollys out of slaughtering their animals, I don’t know… maybe.
Would you like me to post some links that show how dog for food is prepared? Although it’s illegal in South Korea, there are plenty of “boshintang” restauarants serving up “stamina stew,” and taste doesn’t have a thing to do with why Korean men eat the stuff. The more the dog suffers, the happier the consumer is.
Well it’s not worse than killing a mink or an ermine for their pelt.
You guys are just sentimental because it’s a puppy.
This tells me more about you than his comment tells you about him.
What my comment tell him about me, though, I couldn’t even guess.
So what of humans for belt?
I’m genuinely curious about your answer, and I’m not always smart enough to fan the BBQ flames.
<spit take>
Silly rabbit - puppies for belt, humans for suspenders.
Whew…
being a rabbit, I’m not too concerned.
Merle Haggard wrote a song about this a long time ago:
We don’t smoke marijuana in Muskogee;
We don’t take our trips on LSD
We don’t burn our draft cards down on Main Street;
We like livin’ right, and bein’ free.
Leather belts are still in style for female fashion;
Synthetic belts won’t be seen.
Animal cruelty is still the roughest thing in town,
And the kids here still respect the chief of police.
Wow.
Merle’s a dick.
So the law has finally caught up to Cruella de Vil.
Why? Because he said animal cruelty is the roughest thing in town? That means they don’t have gang problems and other such things, that the worst thing people do is be mean to animals.
He’s not being a dick at all.
Okay, how many here don’t believe that the cretins-in-question weren’t going to send the belt to the ex with a nifty little note about its origin?
Human beings are a separate class of creature. We shouldn’t kill humans because we are humans.