Murdering animals should get same punishment?

Question

Should you get life inprison for murdering humans AND animals?

I mean Murder is Murder.

But they class it as slaughter.

What is the difference between Man slaughter and Murder?

And since when are we more important than any other living creature on this earth?

We are not the most intelligent, nor the fastest nor the strongest.

So when did they start making human life more valuable than everything else?

Answer 1

No. were top of the food chain and need animals to survive.personally I wish there wasn't such a stigma about eating all animals then I could easily think of a way to keep the cat's of my garden,I'd eat the buggers.

Answer 2

No if every case is different man slaughter is not premeditated just something that happened through an accident rage at the moment ..car accident etc,, whereas murder is usually planned and thought out as to comparing us to the animals ...put that lion in jail because hes just killed another animal to eat the whales for eating fish the cat for killing a bird or a mouse the fox for eating grubs and me for swatting a fly who would probably have got eating by my local arachnid (spider )its survival of the fittest and being human I win not perfect but the world isn't either

Answer 3

Murder has always been defined as the killing of another HUMAN BEING. This definition has never included non-humans.

And humans have always considered their own lives more important than non-humans...since the dawn of human-kind. I don't know where you've been, but this is not a new development. We have always killed animals. And I guess we'll do so until there are no more left.

Murder=Generally, this includes taking a human life with deliberate premeditation and forethought.

Manslaughter=Taking another person's life but without the deliberate premediation (such as in the heat of passion, self-defense, etc.)

Answer 4

You're what?14?

When you have grown up you may realise that there is a difference between humans and animals.

This does NOT mean I agree with animal testing, or don't care about cruelty to animals, or am not concerned about species being driven to extinction by the actions of humans.

Get some perspective.

Answer 5

In our society it is possible to own animals. It is not acceptable to own human beings. Given that animals can be seen as chattels, it is permissible under our system to kill them for food or for humanitarian reasons (euthanasia being perfectly respectable for animals, while being illegal for humans). Dean Swift (author of "Gulliver's Travels") wrote a book entitled "A Voyage to Brobdingnag" in which Lemuel Gulliver was shipwrecked on an island where horses were in charge and humans were their slaves. It makes chilling reading. Perhaps I should mention that one of the invented words from the book is "yahoo" for the race of brutes in the shape of men in a later part of the book, which has survived as an abusive term for any person considered uncivilised. Very apt.

Answer 6

I sympathize and I've done work myself for animal rights, but the thing is, we're not going to stop people from eating meat. I eat it myself. I think that all you can really do is volunteer your time to help show people the horrors of how food-farm animals are treated, and work for their humane treatment.

Answer 7

If a poor man in a undeveloped country kills an animal because he and his family are starving does that mean he should be imprisoned?

Is that right?

Answer 8

Do animals get the same punishment for killing humans?

Answer 9

No. Although "we" may share some common features, humans and animals cannot be compared. . .and are certainly not equivalents.

Answer 10

of course, and Im not talking just about mammals.

killing for pleasure ?
sick !!!!