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Originally Posted by Pierre
I started the point with microscopic organisms at the extreme end, and then went up the scale to insects, mice, moles, fish, farm stock etc.
You know this, as you were supposed to have read the post. So don't just cherry pick the bits that you want to back up your point.
I suppose that being trussed up by your hind legs and then getting your brain fried by an electrical pulse is an acceptable manner to be killed then?
Or just cutting the animals throat whilst the life drains out of it, is also ok.
Being killed instantly by a pack of dogs isn't though?
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As with all things, perspective is key. There are issues of necessity, availability of alternatives, and degree of unnecessary suffering involved which together determine what is and is not acceptable. It seems to me that few people doubt the necessity of culling foxes. What they object to is the degree of unnecessary suffering given the available alternatives.
And yes, there is a degree of double standards, regarding the fluffieness of animals. Probably one of the most inhumane way in which we kill animals is what we do to industrially caught fish. We take them out of their element and just leave them to die. Not many people get worked up about that, because they don't see it, and fish aren't very fluffy. We tend to get worked up about mammals. I'm not sure whether that is very relevant to this thread though.