Is this evil girl really Japanese?

[bakaKanadajin]

"For future reference, there's a 'quote' function, make it easier for everyone to determine who said what as well as whos words you're replying to."

Let me introduce you to a long-standing (pre-internet) convention in writing: the "quote function" is served by quotation marks.

You're either really old-fashioned, or just hate to concede even when what's presented is obvious. The quote function makes it easier to read the posts and clarify who said what, and it's only a click or a few key strokes away. Everyone uses it, it's for everyone's benefit. At any rate I applaud you for making the leap from typewriter to internet, welcome.

They don't possess the same faculties, period. They are of "lower awareness," as you say. They don't have rights -- they would never comprehend such an abstract concept -- and their lives aren't equal to human ones. Not in my value system.

That's fine, agree to disagree.

I can accept that not everyone sees themselves as an equal part of the continuum on the planet, more so they seem themselves as the 'owners'. But questions of equality aside I think in general what people here would like to see is more respect for animal life period. Just because you (your 'value' system) deems one life less valuable than another doesn't that mean it's there to be wasted or squandered or stomped to death for a few dollars.

Another example, I am supremely confident I would score higher than you on an IQ test, that my physical reflexes are superior and so on. Be that as it may, do I have some kind of right based on that belief to value you less? Where does one draw the line? Chimpanzees are highly intelligent. Most normal chimpanzees are probably more intelligent than a severely mentally-ill/disabled human. What then?

If your human/animal stance is based completely on 'intelligence' it goes right out the window.

A cat toying with a mouse is relying on the same thing as a soldier who torments a prisoner: instinct.

You must be joking. The soldier has a choice as to whether he wants to stick an electric prod up that poor fellas arse as he lays there tied up. Completely different situations and frames of thinking.

Modern humans, for the most part, have learned to suppress this type of instinct for the sake of our humanity and to live in some form of civilization together. Empathy, compassion, recognition of rights for others -- these things are learned behavior.

Some humans haven't or can't learn these values. We tend to label such people as "sociopaths" or "psychopaths." They fit the description of your cat. Blameless, according to you. In my opinion, such people deserve imprisonment, but don't deserve to have their lives snuffed-out by some self-appointed telepathic judge of good and evil intent.

You might think differently about that once it's your child that's been diddled by that repeat-offender who just got moved from half-way house to half-way house around the country running through the revolving-door law system, just as an example. If the law at that point deems him some kind of mentally ill case that can't be sentenced to death and he's put in yet another situation where he can repeat-offend how tempted would you be to look him up and go bash him inside out with a crow bar? The law is written by men and men are idiots. For the most parts the laws are fine and we follow them obediently, but sometimes they don't cover the greater good.

My ONLY point in saying all that is that people who feel compelled to act out against others who waste life are NOT out of their minds. Am I gonna go hunt her down and actually kill her? No of course not. Does everyone who got angry and said to themselves 'Even if she was on fire I wouldn't piss on her to put her out' have a right to feel that way? I think so.

 

[RolandtheHeadless]

Some people fantasize about killing cats; you fantasize about killing cat-killers.