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Originally Posted by _paralyzed_
I get such a kick when people feel righteous and want to stand up against abuse by abusing the abuser. Granted, the abuser is scum for hurting the kitty in the first place, but isn't harming a human worse than hurting an animal? Why do humans always feel superior to everything and feel the need to make choices for others?
That douchebag that hurt the kitty was scum, but putting on a superiority hat and giving in to the same primal urges to hurt as the abuser did makes a person on par with the abuser, yet with a superiority complex.
People are too far removed from the farm and the start of the food chain. Grow up on a farm and you will see the life and death of many species 100 fold. A kitty gets hurt, you shoot it, there will be more and it's family won't mind.
We are at the top of the food chain for a reason, and the way we kill our food is more "humane" than the way animals kill prey in the wild. Animals are below us and I just can't fathom when people see animals as equals. I can't see spending $900 on a cat surgery when there are humans in need.
I've never killed an animal I wasn't going to eat, or that wasn't suffering. I respect them, but they have their place.
Slow night, I'm bored.........
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Honestly, I'd have to disagree with some of that. The whole thing about the "kitty gets hurt, shoot it, there will be more and it's family won't mind" really isn't true, at least for some animals. I know that from experience. Couple instances. I had two dogs. One got hit by a car and the other, the much younger of the two all of a sudden became seemingly depressed, and she still isn't the same two years later. She use to be so playful, listen, and be energetic, now she just lays there 90% of the time and doesn't listen. Some would say thats just cause shes alone and such, and I thought so too, so I got another dog about a year ago. Didn't change a thing and she doesn't even like the other dog that much. Second instance: the pitbull I got a year ago was from my neighbor. His dog had a litter and the only one that made it out of a litter of 10 was mine. Her mom lived next door until a couple months ago and I would sometimes bring her mom over to play with her. Now, she goes outside, STILL and will sit by the fence just waiting for her mom. You can't say that the family of the animal won't mind it not being there. They know...
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