I wonder why ???

I think they should have done to them what they do to the animal and see how they like it

Originally Posted by Iago

Giving the RSPCA more power is not a good idea. And yes he can bring in tabloid style stories that appeal to emotion but that is devoid of facts.

Also killing a human, A intellgent lifeform, is not the same as killing a animal so prison is not really a option (they are overfilled any-way).

I think they have enough power giving them more would be danagous. The fones should be higher if they can PROVE the act was millicous

Can i ask what gives a human more right to live than an animal. You talk of inteligence defining the diference between animal and human. Following your logic I could kill you if I were more inteligent....

Originally Posted by smegs

Can i ask what gives a human more right to live than an animal. You talk of inteligence defining the diference between animal and human. Following your logic I could kill you if I were more inteligent....

An interesting idea but wonder how much you really believe that everything has the same right to live - do you never kill spiders, swat flies or wasp's I wonder ? and do you never eat any sort of meat or fish ?

Originally Posted by pem

An interesting idea but wonder how much you really believe that everything has the same right to live - do you never kill spiders, swat flies or wasp's I wonder ? and do you never eat any sort of meat or fish ?

No

That must be your shortest ever post - and could be read either way

Originally Posted by pem

That must be your shortest ever post - and could be read either way

Iwould never kill any creature, have you?

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by smegs

Iwould never kill any creature, have you?

How about the bacteria that you kill in your gut when you eat?
Or the flies that splat on your windscreen (if you drive)
Never picked a flower?

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by smegs

Can i ask what gives a human more right to live than an animal. You talk of inteligence defining the diference between animal and human. Following your logic I could kill you if I were more inteligent....

With the talk of intelligence, why should a chimpanzee not be punished for killing a monkey?

Originally Posted by smegs

Iwould never kill any creature, have you?

Yes. I kill hundreds of flies, wasps, spiders and ants every year. In the past I have also hunted and killed rabbits & birds.

Originally Posted by Xaccers

How about the bacteria that you kill in your gut when you eat?
Or the flies that splat on your windscreen (if you drive)
Never picked a flower?

Bacteria being killed when i eat- i can't help that it is natural
I don't drive and a picked flower is a dead flower.

Originally Posted by Xaccers

With the talk of intelligence, why should a chimpanzee not be punished for killing a monkey?

we are talking about humans killing animals not animals killing animals

Originally Posted by pem

Yes. I kill hundreds of flies, wasps, spiders and ants every year. In the past I have also hunted and killed rabbits & birds.

well thats your decsion thats the way you feel not the way i feel

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by smegs

we are talking about humans killing animals not animals killing animals

Humans are animals though, or do you feel we are some "higher" being?

Originally Posted by smegs

a picked flower is a dead flower.

Which was alive until you ripped it from it's living and breathing stem because it would look good on your mantlepiece etc

Originally Posted by Xaccers

Humans are animals though, or do you feel we are some "higher" being?

no i don't feel we are some higher being yes we are animals which is why i would not kill a fellow animal

[Xaccers]

Originally Posted by smegs

no i don't feel we are some higher being yes we are animals which is why i would not kill a fellow animal

I'm asking out of genuine interest, don't want you thinking I'm having a go

How can you differenciate between a human killing an animal and a chimpanzee killing an animal.
Both do it for food, both do it for pleasure.