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Originally Posted by DirtyDanza
others in this thread prolly had a nice burger for dinner then turn and say oh poor cat...
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This is such an invalid argument it's not even funny. It baffles me that anyone can fail to distinguish the difference between senseless killing of a defenseless animal for entertainment, and the killing of an animal for food. There is a huge huge margin od difference between the two, and if you can't see that divide something is way off with your reasoning.
If the guy shot the cat, skinned it, cleaned it, and ate it, well ok. Plenty of asians eat cat or dog, whatever. Instead this guy chucked rocks at the cat and knocked it out of it's safety position so his dog could maim it, while he videotaped and cheered him on to "kill it, kill it!" That is not the act of a sane person, and was done purely out of blood lust. Not any form necessity whatsoever. These people need to be punished and put into therapy.
The argument that there's worse things happening to worry about is weak too. Nobody is overlooking the fact that murder, rape, war, disease, etc etc are issues that should take our attention. No one is suggesting that we should overlook these things in favor of some guy who gets off torturing animals. There is absolutely no sound reasoning however to overlook one evil simply because there are other evils elsewhere, especially when the guy put his act on display for the world and made it so easy to track him.
Do you think your average cancer researcher would just cruise on by some guy beating his dog into a pulp with a golf club thinking "Meh, it's not a person, no big deal. I'm on my way to cure cancer..." ?