[Balding_Eagle]

You’re just not happy that some people want severe punishment for those that commit horrendous injuries or torturous death to animals, because that somehow ignores injustice to people or takes the spotlight away from people.

Now it's your turn, I didn't say that.

Read the posts.

I think it's stupid, indefensible really, to call for the death sentence to be applied to those who torture animals.

Read the posts, some are calling for that. That's absurd.

[Secret Agent Man]

If you walked in on someone torturing your animals to death and you had a firearm, would you shoot to stop the threat?

[Postman]

Hate to get involved in your little mind game hissy fit. Your antagonist replied “...If you can’t understand the difference between hunting and a criminal slashing up your animal in your house, how many people here do you think are going to believe that they are equivalent acts? Really?.. “

That’s really as clear as it gets. “...stupid and indefensible...” is an appropriate retort and expected when it’s patently clear by the comments on this thread that you’ve lost whatever argument you were trying to provoke.

In my opinion,not only should purposely torturing a helpless animal, regardless of age, be equated with purposely murdering a human being, I think a punishment applying the worst revenge fantasy of the animal’s owner or the human being’s loved one(s)would be wonderfully and satisfyingly appropriate.

This will never happen, of course, but what kind of society have we become when the level of abuse meted out to a helpless animal is usually punished by the equivalent of a slap on the wrist?