A woman in sunderland got 4 months for trying to drown a puppy in boiling water when it wouldnt die from the scalds it recieved the family left it in a field to die and it took a week.
If someone did similar to a human they would get life. How is that fair?
2006-09-25 00:46:51 · 12 answers · asked by kez m 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
i agree.at the weekend i saw a story about a poor staffordshire bull terrier who was thrown from the top of a tower block to his death by some thugish youths,a fitting sentence if they catch these youths would be to throw them from the same place.i have 2 staffies and would kill anyone who dared harm them.
2006-09-25 00:51:32 · answer #1 · answered by adam r 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why are NO sentences given to loggers that strip the forest and kill hundreds of trees?
I've heard of humans getting 6-10 years in prison for animal cruelty and humans getting 3-6 years in jail for murdering other humans.
How is that fair?
Animals are animals and humans are humans, supposedly. But animals are not considered a higher life form like humans.
2006-09-25 01:06:57 · answer #2 · answered by Lucianna 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Simply, it isn't. Unfortunately though, the human race on the whole, tends to be speciest. We think our own species so superior and worthy that everything on the planet is expendable and exists soley for us to use and abuse it. How sad :( God forbid that mankind wakes up to the realisation that we wantonly kill, main, pollute and destroy not only other life forms, but the planet as a whole, solely because we are too selfish, arrogant and idle to change our concepts - just think of the concesequences of us acknowledging our responsibilities and acquiring a conscience.... we'd have happy, safe world! Couldn't have that now could we! ;)
2006-09-25 00:58:25 · answer #3 · answered by NC 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm glad you added the bit about "every living thing". Please remind me of your vies next time you eat a carrot!
You're partly right though. People who harm animals without need are barbarians whose sentence should be to be treated in exactly the same way. however, from a religious perspective, many argue that animal have no souls and therefore don't count. (Those who harm them don't seem to either).
However, the law will always assume that people are more important than animals, probably because the animals can't talk and explain otherwise :-).
2006-09-25 01:06:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
People in this world, are not all the same. Most of us are decent like you or me, but at the fringe, there are some that aren't normal. they are the true monsters. 4 months is a long sentence for this animal cruelty, and I'm sure she will get hers one day. Maybe a pit bull will treat her accordingly, we can only hope.
2006-09-25 00:52:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
exciting element. I understand your argument, yet i could in no way condone willfully killing any creature, different than for foodstuff (human beings excluded of direction). whether human beings are able to doing very atrocious issues, i've got faith that one and all human beings be able to love. i've got faith that love and compassion are inherent features that each and each human possesses. Any lack of expertise or selfishness that arises interior of a individual is a consequence of ecosystem and upbringing. that's the comparable with animals.
2016-10-17 22:38:42 · answer #6 · answered by montesi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then the same can be said for bacteria and virus. These are living things so if you have an infection how could you take any medication and risk killing these innocent animals? If you want to treat living things equally then start a campaign aginst taking medications for viral and bacteriological infections.
2006-09-25 01:00:37 · answer #7 · answered by Kokopelli 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That isn't fair, but humans are an arrogant species and think they're much more important than anything else.
By the way, that poor puppy had a horrible death. :( I get angry when I hear such stories.
2006-09-25 00:51:56 · answer #8 · answered by undir 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is an awful story, but did you know that the animal rights movement started before the human rights movement which gave us great things like labor laws? So ask yourself this: is your dog more important than your parents, siblings, spouse, or children?
2006-09-25 00:52:59 · answer #9 · answered by chafer17 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
cuase humans have souls. animals and humans are not equal. i feel bad for the puppy, the lady should go to a mental place, but puppys arnt babies. wait..this country kills their human babies..i guess thats not a good argument after all!
2006-09-25 00:53:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋