Why should prosecution of Vick for treating his dogs horribly lead us to ponder whether animal lovers are mean to people? I'm sure some are.
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Posted on 07/23/2007 11:10:30 PM PDT by goldstategop
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Didn't PETA get caught killing animals?
We are not supposed to enjoy dog fights or cock fights but many will pay to see human beings beat each other to a pulp. Something wrong with this picture.
The 'calves' were idols!
LOL!
What wrong with the picture is that the animals don't have a choice, people do.
Interesting. I had no idea that the Nazis were also the animal rights activists of their time.
How barbaric! Everyone knows God entrusted the care of His creations to us...so we could torture them to death to test strawberry-scented hemorrhoid cream.
"I asked the earth, and it answered me, 'I am not He;' and whatsoever are in it confessed the same. I asked the sea and the deeps, and the living creeping things, and they answered, 'We are not Thy God, seek above us.'... And I replied unto all the things which encompass the door of my flesh: 'Ye have told me of my God, that ye are not He; tell me something of Him.' And they cried out with a loud voice, 'He made us.' St. Augustine
They must be treayed with mercy for that reason.
Yes -- but that's not inconsistent with their position. i talked to a PETA member, and there's sense to it. I don't agree with it, but it's logically and morally consistent.
PETA wants to end the notion of human ownership of animals altogether. No lab animals, no pets, no livestock. Mu counter was, what about cows? If cattle ranching ended overnight, the cows could not be released into the wild, because they cannot fend for themselves. Few farmers are going to continue to feed and care for cattle with no economic upside. The vast majority of cattle would simply have to be destroyed.
The PETA member I spoke to accepted that -- and that most dogs and cats would also have to be destroyed if pet ownership were to end. They are willing to accept the one-time mass killng of millions of animals -- even the extinction of species that were bred for dependence on humans -- if it means a permanent end to the breeding of animals to meet human needs, which they see as perpetuating cruelty.
As I said, I don't agree, but it's logically consistent.
The humans don't fight to the death, and the humans have a choice. I don't care for boxing, but it's not the moral equivalent of dogfighting.
“We are not supposed to enjoy dog fights or cock fights but many will pay to see human beings beat each other to a pulp. Something wrong with this picture.”
Is this a trick question or something?
“We are not supposed to enjoy dog fights or cock fights but many will pay to see human beings beat each other to a pulp. Something wrong with this picture.”
Presumably humans can decide for themselves whether or not to participate. They are not slaves or gladiators. Animals have no such choice.
What a lousy excuse. Deer don't have a choice either but we have an open season on them.
And what are the morals of the dogs?
Think, just think.
Animals have no morals. Besides animals don't have a choice because they can't think.
Better calves than donkeys.
That individual is sick. And he’s sick in a very scary way.
Sorry, you can tell alot about a man or woman by how they treat their dog in my experience. PETA is a lunatic organization, no doubt about it, but the author is letting that wacked out small minority override his own common sense in my opinion.
And its hard to take anyone seriously these days that dredge up the Nazi’s outside of any conversation about the Nazi’s.
People have a choice. I can't imagine paying to watch boxing or wrestling--but at least the fighters are there by choice, as are the idiots who pay to watch.
Some fighters beat up on their wives and bite ears off; maybe to call them "animals" is a slam to animals.
Why should prosecution of Vick for treating his dogs horribly lead us to ponder whether animal lovers are mean to people? I'm sure some are.
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