Thread: US Marine Throws Puppy Over Cliff

Originally Posted by Black_Eagle

On the other hand, hunting down and killing an animal with a gun probably causes more fear, pain, and stress on an animal (seeing as you can't just walk up to an animal and shoot it in the head) yet most people aren't strutting around complaining about hunters.

I don't really like people hunting for pure "sport."

I am tolerant for people who hunt for food and or practical reasons. Even with that being the case, standing on top of a ridge with an uzi and screaming "Hahahaha! Die aminalz!!!" is not respectable hunting, in my eyes (even if it was for food), which is the equivalent of what the soldiers did in the video.

Originally Posted by Goldney

Why don't you people care equally that these marines are killing people and children?

The most obvious answer would be: Because it has nothing to do with this conversation.

I'm sure if you look real hard, you can find plenty of threads about peoples' feelings toward soldiers and war, as it pertains to human death.

Life is not an onus, O'nus is

Hopefully someone gets something out of this.


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Originally Posted by Oneironaut

The most obvious answer would be: Because it has nothing to do with this conversation.

I'm sure if you look real hard, you can find plenty of threads about peoples' feelings toward soldiers and war, as it pertains to human death.

Theres some hypocrisy here. Earlier on you talked about cognitive states and, in the little Timmy example, implied that ants aren't as important as dogs due to this difference in cognition. By the same rules, humans are more cognitively complex than dogs, so you should all be proportionately a LOT more outraged about the hundreds of humans killed everyday by troops in the middle east. The uproar that this one puppy's death has caused just highlights how silly people can be. Get a grip.