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Agree to disagree. I think it's a pretty clear indication that someone is disturbed and dangerous.
People have lost their damn minds
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Agree to disagree. I think it's a pretty clear indication that someone is disturbed and dangerous.
So you advocate imprisoning someone because they have the potential to hurt a human? I'll agree that they are disturbed but saying that they are dangerous to anything other than cats is jumping the gun.
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Where did I say that? It's not just potential once they burn the cat. They are dangerous.
So we convict and imprison based upon the potential to commit future acts against people?
EDIT: You posted while I was writing. It's a cat. That's the bottom line. I have a cat. I love my cat. But it's just a cat. At a certain point the line you draw between certain animals is going to be arbitrary. Soon you'll want to imprison kids who pull the legs off of bugs.
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Again, where did I say that? Since when did we only imprison people that commit physical harm to other people?
I haven't pulled the legs off a human yet, just grasshoppers and flies. However I am obviously disturbed and dangerous. Being relatively young still, I could snap at any time, hunt Kicky down and pull his arms off. Better lock me up now.
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Yea, cuz there's no other arbitrary laws that are just decided on. WATCH OUT! SLIPPERY SLOPE ERRRGGGHHH!!!
unluckyseventeen
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I agree, as long as they don't have the internet in prison.
richgates
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I don't have the data in front of me, but I thought that there have been numerous studies regarding serial killers and how many of them tortured animals as children. I am not equating the two, but I believe it is a crime to commit animal cruelty in most places, and I think a jail sentence is justified depending on the circumstances.
But what those studies don't address is the reverse statistic: how many people that torture animals become serial killers. And that's the relevant issue for determining whether or not this is actually a public safety issue.
I'm not saying torturing animals is a good thing, I'm saying that we've swung too far in one direction here.
Darkwing Duck
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Wow, I thought inhumane acts were punishable by prison times. Wanton destruction of animals seems to qualify.
"It's just a cat." "It's just a Jew." "It's just a Mormon." I guess the limit is humans then? It's only criminal if it's Homo sapiens sapiens? Going after transients with baseball bats is exponentially worse than doing it to transient dogs?
Color me unimpressed if you take that stand.
"It's just a cat." "It's just a Jew." "It's just a Mormon." I guess the limit is humans then? It's only criminal if it's Homo sapiens sapiens? Going after transients with baseball bats is exponentially worse than doing it to transient dogs?
Color me unimpressed if you take that stand.
Quoted for truth. I LOVE killing Mormons.