Animals and property
While I agree that animals are essentially property and resources, excusing the abuse of them is horrendous:
Although I think it’s mean and pointless to hurt a helpless creature, I don’t really care what people do to their own animals. There shouldn’t be any criminal punishment for hurting an animal you own, and if you hurt someone else’s animal you should be prosecuted similarly to any other form of property crime.
Sorry, Michael, but that is wrong. Yes, we slaughter cattle. However, we don’t do so by torturing them and we do so for a purpose (leather, burgers, etc.). Conversely, from the property standpoint, your non-living property doesn’t feel pain nor does it suffer.
September 2nd, 2004 at 12:01 pm
what about killing your own animals (not tourturing them).
for example: i happen to like killing my dogs, but i do it humanely (like a leathal injection sort of way).
but the animals are not being tourtured, but they are being killed.
(I personally think that person should be put in the looney bin if those still exist)
NOTE: I don’t pesonal engage in that activity, the worts thing i have ever intentionaly done to an animal is ignore it for a littl while, and i don’t personally own a dog (yet).
September 2nd, 2004 at 12:04 pm
I think the act should also involve doing so for a reason (like to provide food, clothing, or curing a disease).
September 2nd, 2004 at 5:17 pm
SU – I commented on his post that I think he may be making a pretty sneaky straw man argument to get people to rethink the abortion question in terms of something similar, yet much less divisive. He hasn’t responded yet (as of this moment) so I’m not sure. I’m anxious to see if he admits it (if it’s true)