hmm.. i fear my point in it's entirety was lost on you. ho hum...
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Originally Posted by martyh
what's with comparing this incident with the slaughter of jews ..which you were quite clearly eluding to
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1) the comparison was that we would not accept what people are proposing to do the the foxes, were it done on people. what makes it acceptable to be done on an animal - although in this case, a large group of innocent animals? I believe I am right in saying it was a single fox that did this (according to the media reports). Why need we kill all foxes? much the same as a couple of Jews made one man feel bad, so he decided to try and eradicate them all. same difference.
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Originally Posted by martyh
...we are not dealing with people here it is a animal that is consistently year in year out becoming more of a pest in urbanised areas ,mostly because humans insist on treating them like pets by feeding them and treating deseases in them
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2) then let's educate the people and not punish the product of their own doing. it's not unlike shooting the messenger, and I'm sure we are all familiar with the saying regarding that. also see point 4 below.
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Originally Posted by martyh
so what do you think it was if it wasn't a fox ? i would appreciate an answer not more tree hugger ramblings
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3) the whole direction my initial thread was going in is that we do not know for sure what did this to the children, so we shouldn't become to hasty in becoming judge and jury. as I said, you would not sentance a man to prison or death based entirely on one persons story and the result of an event without ensuring you found out the circumstances that actioned the result.
4) This point is merely to get you to read the last paragraph of my post you quoted above regarding becoming vicous blood-thristy animals. now take a step back, and think about what you are saying, should you agree that a cull is in order here. if it still isn't clear, then what I'm am trying to draw attention to is the ironic situation whereby people are calling for a huge cull of innocent (and yes, they are innocent as only one fox allegedly did this) animals they themselves consider blood-thirsty killers.