Good thing they get 9 lives
Posted on: March 3, 2009 - 6:36pm
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Good thing they get 9 lives
Yeesh. The 2nd rather brutal tormenting of a cat to get press lately (props to Dead_Again for the link to the story).
Apparently some people haven't recieved the memo about cats being pets that you pet/scritch/feed in return for fleeting affection and a few purrs, rather than animate toys you try to torture to death because you're a fucked-up psycho.
...We are still sending that memo out, aren't we? 
Quote:
"Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full."
- Leon Trotsky, Last Will & Testament
February 27, 1940
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.... i do what i will with my cats thank you very much >.>
filthy little vermin they are! burn them! burn them all!
What Would Kharn Do?
I'm not trying to start an argument; just making a passing observation.
Sometimes it seems like people care more about pets than they do for other human beings.
I say if it isn't someone's pet then it should be someone's food.
I now return you to your ailurophilia.
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I like kittes too much to read the link, but I did get a nice banner ad for Cat Netwrok, the social network for cat lovers. Who wants to join me?
Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible
Argument from Sadism: Theist presents argument in a wall of text with no punctuation and wrong spelling. Atheist cannot read and is forced to concede.
Thats true. I like cats better than people.
And such cruelty to the poor animal should be punished severely. Its a torture and should be punished like one, no matter whether its a human who's tortured or a cat.
You do NOT mess with Caturday.
Me too. People tend to be stringy and tough, and aren't as easy to field dress.
"Yes, I seriously believe that consciousness is a product of a natural process. I find that the neuroscientists, psychologists, and philosophers who proceed from that premise are the ones who are actually making useful contributions to our understanding of the mind." - PZ Myers
lol!!!!!!!!
"Very funny Scotty; now beam down our clothes."
VEGETARIAN: Ancient Hindu word for "lousy hunter"
If man was formed from dirt, why is there still dirt?
Hard to marinade too. I use the tub.
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By the way, who wants some spicy jerky?
After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him.
The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
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The people who did this should undergo a psych exam.
Kitties are so fluffy!
Fluffy'ness is no excuse... for not being horribly mangled, maimed, and tortured by me -_-
What Would Kharn Do?
Maybe if you had a bond with another species, you'd get it. Dogs/cats/etc give a kind of simple love that humans don't. They're easily pleased, loyal and fun. Humans are often a headache.
Are you insinuating that we eat dogs/cats, or just any animal that's not a pet? Gross. I don't want a chimpanzee sandwich.
*Our world is far more complex than the rigid structure we want to assign to it, and we will probably never fully understand it.*
"Those believers who are sophisticated enough to understand the paradox have found exciting ways to bend logic into pretzel shapes in order to defend the indefensible." - Hamby
They should get some years in prison. Would be fair.
Two things.
Have you ever tried a chimpanzee sandwich?
Would you deny someone else the right to eat a chimpanzee sandwich?
We encourage the 'preservation' of animal species while watching some of our own die because of our 'rules'.
Entire swaths of Africa are labeled off-limits to its own inhabitants because it might cause a species to become endangered or extinct. We prevent the people of these areas to move into other areas where there is food or land for agriculture because we let lion prides and water buffalo herds have the land they 'require'.
Great White Hunters buy permits to shoot the great game of Africa, while people indigenous to the region are faced with prison for wanting the meat provided from one kill.
On the 'homefront', we spend scads of money to euthanize and cremate our 'pets', while people overseas starve in want of a catburger or an actual hot dog. We have pet cemeteries for fuck's sake.
Instead of putting puppies in a pound, I'd rather know how much I could sell a pound of unwanted puppies for.
I didn't even throw in the part about the incinerators at the local animal shelter contributing to global warming.
I have had pets. Humans are better company.
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So there are about, what? 6-7 billion homo sapiens on the planet?
How many lions are there, again?
EDIT: Oh woah, the plight of us human beings.
- Leon Trotsky, Last Will & Testament
February 27, 1940
Who gives a shit when they aren't being used for food?
In fact, just so your precious little predators can survive people never reach your age in their lifespans.
What purpose do lions serve for you?
Don't feel bad if you can't find a rational one. I haven't found many reasons for our big wildlife refuge to the north called Ottawa.
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You first:
What purpose do the broke kids in Africa serve for you?
It's funny to me that you would defend the position that population isn't an issue when it comes to starvation; nope, it's those damn conservationists. Just remove the protected wildlife sanctuaries and allow the natives to hunt / poach everything into extinction for the sake of providing witch doctr Unga Chunga with the teeth he wants for his protective necklaces, and Africa's problems will somehow magically dissipate.
I'm just curious: do you actually do anything yourself about penniless children overseas? Or are you just another one of the 98% percent of North Americans who will clamor-on about the subject so long as you think it can support your position while shrugging at canvassars and sending them on their way when they come knocking for sponsors?
- Leon Trotsky, Last Will & Testament
February 27, 1940
A) If people want jobs manufacturing goods then there is going to have to be a new market to buy them. Emerging economies are the capitalists' best bet to stay in control of the world.
B) I can talk to people there. Discover new things with them as well as for them.
C) Some of those African women are HAWT!
Agriculture depends upon preservation of the land to feed PEOPLE, not so some pride of lions can be viewed on Animal Planet. I still want to know what Meercat tastes like.
I have done very little except give some to EARTHWARD and provide product testing for the 'water bubble' as the kids called it. Now, trademarked for $30 as the 'Watercone'.
I want to do more, but am limited in resources. Thanks for reminding me.
Now, it's your turn. What do lions in Africa do for you that is so much more important than the people who could eat them?
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There are ~7 billion people on this planet and I really don't care about them. But animals are much more interesting. And to let them go extinct is genocide in progress.
Well, actually I do care about people, but it's a question of priority. And I'd rather save the last remains of endangered species than some common exponentially multiplying mammals.
P.S. We don't need to kill endangered species to feed African people. We just need to redistribute worlds resources. TAKE AWAY MCDONALDS FATTIES FOOD.
I use to hike around the hills near my house as a kid with BB guns and/or bows. I would hunt small game birds, lizards, squirrels, snakes, etc. Somewhere around the age of 9 or 10, I recognized this seemed cruel, since I wasn't actually killing them for any reason other than sport. I stopped and would then only go out there to shoot old bottles, cans, & make shift targets. My point being I don't see these folks as not clearly recognizing the cruelty they are delivering, and assuming they carry this sort of mindset in all avenues of their being.
On a side note we have a guinea pig. I have to peridically explain to my 5 and 6 year old to not pick on it, that it's alive, and doesn't like to be poked and prodded. What is it with kids picking on animals?
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. - William S. Burroughs
Muslims generally revere cats, following Muhammad's example:
Muezza (Muhammad's legendary cat):
I thought I might flip your first sentence to use as my opinion.
There are ~7 billion ANIMALS on this planet and I really don't care about them. But PEOPLE are much more interesting. And to let them go extinct is genocide in progress.
I do agree with redistributing the world's resources though. I'm a big guy, but I don't 'supersize it'.
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If you count ants then there are way more animals. But some endagered species are low in numbers. We as a species are healthy and strong, no signs of possible extinction. It's bad for people to die, but we must not let other species suffer extinction because we multiply too fast. We should try to solve both problems.
Wow, I never thought I could relate to Islam. Well I guess Islam is better religion than christianity after all
And I say, some human beings are not worth caring for. I believe that cat has a better right to live than the individual that shot it repeatedly for entertainment.
Humanity isn't worth a lot in my book. Just being born as a particular species doesn't give you "improved standing" to me.
I'm not saying that all other animals are better than us. Just that having capacity for something doesn't mean it will be used.
As proven by the OP's link.
Theism is why we can't have nice things.
Don't be so sure about that.
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