Posted on 08/09/2006 10:13:41 AM PDT by Salgak
Yeah, I am!!!
If not, spare me the sanctimony, since presumably you consume "innocent animals" all the time.
I guess if you had waited for an answer to your first question you wouldn't have had to ass-u-me you already knew the answer, eh?!?
No, in this situation, the health of the human comes first.
The health of the human could have been handled quite nicely with a series of six shots as many people have pointed out...completely invalidating that statement.
Please tell me your family philosophy only applies to thinks killed with your gun while hunting. We have killed roaches, flies, ants, and mice. I don't want to eat them. ;-)
As for the last paragraph of your post...shoo fly, shoo!...mean anything to you? *wink*wink*
"What makes a meerkat more deserving of life than a chicken?"
It's a mammal thing. I first came across mammal chauvinism during the original uproar over clubbing seal pups in Canada. Yet no one was averse to lobsters being submersed screaming in boiling water. Those big mammal eyes just do us in. Cows, oddly, excepted, of course.
I had to go back to my original post to see what it is you are talking about. I don't see it. My statement was clearly identified as something "I think" and nothing more. One cannot be too thin-skinned and participate in political and cultural debates.
As for the last paragraph of your post...shoo fly, shoo!...mean anything to you? *wink*wink*
Nice response to my obvious provocation.....
Too damn bad they don't have a photo of the parents with the poor child with their names on the front page of the paper and a special photo of them and the dead animals prominently on display at the zoo.
Kid must have watched too many of those animal planet meerkat specials. Cute? Yes. Wanna pet one? No thanks.
My daughter had them 12 years ago. They are no big deal compared to the old ones, but they are much much larger doses than most other injections. My daughter got the first couple in her upper leg.
H.R. 2392, the Federal Strollerization Regulation and Protection Act (also known as No Child Wheeled Around), will discourage such excess with its severe penatlies.
Vaccines and just about any medication have side effects. I wouldn't want to take anything myself that was not absolutely necessary, and I wouldn't want children to either.
As for the innocent animals - I hope you don't wear or use any leather products either.
Now, now, I didn't call for government regulation. But the sight of large children being wheeled around is getting all too common. And many are being steadily supplied with junk food and sugary beverages by their parents, at the same time they're being wheeled around. Their parents should be free to do whatever idiotic stuff they like, but you and I shouldn't get socked with the resulting medical bills these kids will start incurring at an early age. Even if they're "privately" insured, the insurance industry is regulated to the point where the rest of us will share equally in any premium increases required by the growing numbers of people coming down with Type II diabetes in childhood or very early adulthood, and progressing quickly to all the other ailments associated with both obesity and diabetes. If these parents knew that THEY would be footing the bill for the illness-inducing way they're raising their children, a lot more of them would ditch the strollers.
There are more Republican vegetarians than you'd think. Including me.
A few months ago ate very strictly vegan for two months and it cleared up my gout 95%. Yes. I know vegan does not equal vegetarian
Or by simply sending the stupid girl home with her stupid parents and forgetting about them. Given that these meerkats had already been vaccinated against rabies, the chance of the stupid girl actually contracting rabies even without getting her 6 shots was virtually zero.
I really hope the identities of the stupid girl and her stupid parents are publicly known in their neighborhood, workplaces, and school. If so, they'll live to regret their stupid choices in a big way.
I have a feeling word will get around quickly . . .
I know I probably made that sound like I didn't think there were a lot of Republican vegetarians the way I stated that...it's just that 'some people' instantly throw out the label that anyone who doesn't consume meat HAS to be a loony-tree-hugging-birkenstock-wearing-vegetarian-liberal.
That myth is so debunked...I've been known, without hesitation, to own up to the first four labels...just don't ever accuse me of being in any form or fashion a liberal! That boils my blood! Lol!
In my immediate family, without exception, every Republican is a vegetarian and every Democrat is a carnivore...
The Republican tent is much bigger & more diverse than many people seem to think...this morning I let some of that 'thinking' or rather the 'lack of thinking' disturb me...I should not have.
It is apparent you and I 'see' the situation with totally different eyes...I 'see' that an ignorant, irresponblible, idiotic, selfish family CAUSED the unnecessary death of 5 INNOCENT living creatures...period. I repeat, apparently, you 'see' it differently and have a real problem with my 'seeing' these five little Meerkats as INNOCENT! ?!?
Quite certainly we are not going to see eye to eye on this...moving on, nothing else to 'see' here.
ROFL...why didn't you post that earlier? I could have simply said, "Yeah, that. Exactly what GovernmentShrinker just said!"
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