[sit-rep]

a human is the same as a cat in your eyes...interesting.

[TomGuy]

To quote Lisa Douglas of Green Acres regarding Arnold, the pig: "A pig is a person to another pig."

[Calico Cat]

I'd put a cat on par with a group of heartless torturers, myself.

[BlueLancer]

These little thugs are just getting started. If they aren't stopped now .. with a disciplinary hammering .. next they will be doing the same with people.

But then it won't really matter to you will it .. you will just be one of those who wrings their hands about "why didn't someone do something earlier".

[monocle]

I would not be surprised if a court meted out a punishment which would be more severe than if a human were subjected to the same treatment. I have often thought if those who commit unspeakable crimes, such as the Carr brothers in Kansas, were prosecuted for cruelty to animals the verdicts would be more just.

[verity]

The harsh reality is that these little shits need to be eliminated from the herd. You are entitled to your opinion.

[El Sordo]

The follow words are not mine, they were written by another Freeper whose name I neglected to save when I retained this little missive. You may not agree with the author's precepts, but please do consider his opening and closing points.

For your consideration:


Animals do not have souls. However, mammals are self-aware to some degree -- and dogs and cats trust us. This is why I'm against eating dogs and cats -- not because they're widdle people with fur coats, but because it's a betrayal of trust. They're on our team.

C.S. Lewis was known to believe that beloved pets gain a little bit of humanity from us over the years, just as we share in the love of Christ. That's not to say that there's a cat or dog "heaven", but it at least opens the possibility; perhaps our love makes our pets more human, just as Christ's love makes us more like Him.

God cares when animals die, even little sparrows. That doesn't mean we can't eat them, use them as slaves, or kill them when necessary; it just means that all life is precious to God. To kill an animal for human use or out of self-defense is just killing, and when done with the minimum possible pain is a perfectly moral act; to torture an animal to death simply for the pleasure of watching it suffer is to disrespect Life itself -- and the Maker of Life.

Plus I despise bullies. No rational reason -- I just hate them, always have. When I see a big thing cruelly torturing a little thing just for the hell of it, I lose it. Fortunately, I'm not a libertarian, so I have no problem imposing my own narrow moral standards on others (by force if necessary) when the situation warrants it. If I ever caught any of my neighbors doing something like this, they'd wish they'd never been born.

The Natural Law written into the heart of every man is enough to tell anybody that wanton cruelty is wrong. I pity the kind of creature that could roast a little living thing alive without the slightest twinge of conscience.