Posted on 03/22/2002 9:49:10 AM PST by areafiftyone
White Plains, New York-AP) -- A former prison guard who killed five kittens in a trash compactor at Sing Sing has been sentenced to a year in jail. A judge said the crime was ``so offensive and so calculated and so gratuitously cruel it diminishes the humanity of everybody.''
Forty-eight-year-old Ronald Hunlock had been convicted of aggravated cruelty to animals. Last March he found an inmate with contraband at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining. He then searched the inmate's cell, found five newborn kittens and their mother and told the inmate to put them in the compactor. The inmate refused, so Hunlock did it himself.
The mother cat escaped but the kittens were crushed. Defense attorney Daniel Gallivan had asked the judge not to impose jail time, and said Hunlock thought the cats were ill and had no other recourse.
And I suppose I'm guilty. I spent too much money on my cat when she was sick but I would do it all over again.
At the pearly gates, I suppose I'll have to answer to why I didn't give it to some kid with no medical insurance.
I went without medical insurance for years. I trusted God and He provided. And I did have one year with massive medical expenses I had to pay myself.
Oops. I still owe some money for an emergency room bill from before I was insured. Better get on that. But the lady p***** me off at the collection agency. She would only take cash. Not my check or a cashier's check. And she was a real snot to boot.
No wonder I love my cats so much.
No, just that human life has more value to God than animal life does.
My comment about "inordinate affection" was not meant as specific argument in this situation. I was just a general comment about the extremes, meaning that there are those who are cruel to animals and those who have inordinate affection, and then there is vast majority who have a balanced view of the relationships of humans and animals.
I probably confused the issue a bit by interjecting that comment, so I apologize.
Proverbs 12:10 A righteous [man] regards the life of his animal, But the tender mercies of the wicked [are] cruel.
The groups who sought to stop cruelty to animals were founded and filled primarily with Christians in the early days. Darwinism provides no rationale whatsoever for treating animals well.
#3, I am not trying to put words into your mouth. The above post is what I based my point on. There is a whole world of difference between the gnat and the log, you failed to make that difference clear, hence my misunderstanding.
The English have real soft spots for animals. Is it a cultural thing? Darwin excluded, of course ;-).
Couple generations ago my family were farmers. They fed their animals before they fed themselves. But I was told my grandfather had a bad temper and used to get mad at his horse.
But my father taught me to love animals. We had some chickens in town for awhile til he had to kill them for us to eat. We never had any more chickens after that ;-). But I still eat chicken.
How dare you call my dear departed mother, one of the greatest women that ever walked this earth, a monster. How anyone can get so upset over the killing of a few stupid cats is absolutely beyond me. My mother and dad taught us how to kill rabbits, squirrels, rats and mice and snakes and possums and chickens and geese and ducks and pigs and cockroaches and a whole bunch of things. They also taught us to love God and neighbor. That was a priority. She forbid us to kill robins and mockingbirds with our slingshots and bbguns but let us kill turtledoves. So from now on I would appreciate it if you would cease calling my mother a monster.
Relatively speaking, there's a world of difference between a kitten and a stone. You seem to be saying if it's not human, it's not worth worrying about, that crushing kittens isn't that much different than crushing stones. I think Matthew makes clear that there are infants, then there are kittens a little farther down, and then there are rocks way down at the bottom. Life is life.
You are spot on (this coming from a vegan). The man's real crime was killing cute animals. I wonder if the judge has ever been to a slaughterhouse?
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