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Originally posted by BigG
Well, this is also interesting because it would seem to exclude almost all animals except humans. So if a lion eats your baby you gently pet it and say, "no, no . . . don't do that kitty" and drop it off at the nearest nature preserve?
What if you find a deadly snake in your daughter's bedroom? Can you kill it? It is innocent so you must not harm it . . . right?
What if a retarded man sets fire to your house and your entire family is killed and you survive but are burned so badly you will never get out of bed again. Is he innocent?
What if a severly retarded man breaks into your home and rapes one of your children? He clearly isn't capable of "volition" so you must continue to consider that he is an "innocent" correct?
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We would put down the animals, not because they should have known better, but because allowing them to exist would endanger us. Ideally, we would put them down humanely.
We would hospitalize the retarted rapist and arsonist for the same reasons. Keeping them out of society is not the same as punnishing them.