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You said bit, not mauled. Mauling is another topic all together. The dog would be sent to the vet, checked out and depending on the out come either put down or donated to a program. There are several rehabilitation programs for dogs out there or there are programs that take dogs and take them to hospitals to cheer up patients. The dog may have issues with children but doesn't mean they cannot be useful else where.


There are all kinds of programs out there.

Holy shit, I had to practically run out from my office to avoid breaking into laughter at my desk.

I would.

This is why I'm not having kids, though. I recognize my inherant unreality of putting my cat over potential future children, and simply decided not to have them rather than face a moral prickly pear patch.

Because I'm sorry, my cat comes first.

lol "inherent rights" We didn't -recognize- that humans have inherent rights. We invented them.

Just because we have not emancipated pets to a greater extent does not mean that we should not or can not. As for wearing or eating animals.. we shouldn't. Stop with this is/ought conflation sh*t.



What would you pick if you had to decide between your cat and someone else's child? Would your answer change depending on how close you were to the child. I know how I'd react, but I'd like to see how other's would.

Edited, Feb 17th 2009 12:59pm by Pensive

No, I refuse to let my Guinea Hens vote - they are uninformed and stupid as hell.

You are making a fallacious argument. We have not emancipated pets to any extent. We can't. It's not our place. We use them, exploit them, care about them, eat them, wear them, learn from them, enjoy them. Are you really saying that we should rule them all as well. Tiger tiger go to jail, you've caught a emu by the tail.

Animals are free to make their own way in this world.

Ive edited nothing.

Lol. You changed this:



To this:



Why make such an obvious lie? Yeah, I don't think anyone's going to believe that I made up a post for you and then replied to it, especially given the edit at the bottom of the post.

Moron.

I don't place any particularly special value on human life. There are over six billion humans, one or two less isn't anything to get too terrible upset over if you have no connection to them whatsoever. Now this doesn't mean that I advocate killing people for the hell of it, but if you have a good reason and are prepared to deal with the consequences, have at it.

As to the pets vs. humans deal, I'll go with an example. If someone were to place a gun in my hand, and then put my cat and some random twit I've never laid eyes on before in front of me, and I had to shoot one of them, I'd probably shoot the random twit. But if it were someone close to me, say one of the few members of my family that I can stand to be in the same room with, then I'd reluctantly shoot the cat. It's all about the value of that particularly relationship, not just human vs. animal.

Also, yes, I know how terrible this will sound to many of you.

Well my apologies. I must have edited the old post instead of writing a new one as I had intended. You got both the messages though so I'm content.

It was an unintentional lie.

You're getting awfully worked up about this. Are you trying to marry your goat or something?

What can I say, I'm just naturally predisposed to rage.

Sorry, had you confused with Ash, whose post was next to yours. I wonder if part of your awesome intellect can comprehend the difference between misreading and lack of understanding.