Replies

>>I am comparing intentional aggression against a neighbor with my opinion of reasonable response...
you probably don't want to hear any more than that. <<

Actually, I find it really facinating that you put a piece of chattel (dog) on the same level as a human life. That you feel that it is a reasonable response to an act of aggression against a piece of your property, to be the killing of, not the aggressor but rather his innocent child.

>>And you don't want to poison my dog either.<<
No I do not, never did! I would poison any animal for the stupidity of it's owner. My response was that you were willing to kill a child over the insanity of his parent. It's a real PETA like action. Now if you had said that you would take out the person doing the poisoning, no problem. We all have to stand for our actions, but their child? Hmm.

Then I appologize:
The ORIGINAL post, prior to the one to which I replied, included the assertion that that person would poison or kill any pit bull & on sight - based on the breed alone.
That is an attack not just on chattel, but on any social order, and on the 'owner' of the animal itself.

The response to THAT post was something like "and I could poison your noisy kids..."

To which: "That's over the edge.."

Finally, my: "Did you expect any different.." (than a comparable escalation in avoidable hostility) the poster HAD stated that he would toss poisoned hamburger onto the other's property - an assault calling for either police response (not likely to happen) or retribution (quite human and quite biblical).

I did not notice that your entry was a new poster.

That said:
I'd neither poison a dog or someone's kids but that's the kind of chain that is established when someone threatens or actually does assault his neighbor (property or person)

(PS children WERE chattel for a long stretch of history and there are real parallels in raising kids and dogs; but as I said, even I can't put them on the same bias. And, MY response to finding questionable 'burger would be very, very, personal if and when I id'd the coward responsible.)