Guest guest Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 The sport hunters' argument is not sound, because if they truly wanted to help the environment and control overpopulation, they would kill the females, especially the aged and sick ones; instead they kill mainly the " trophy " males. Given that millions of lovable shelter animals are killed each year, and given that the pitbulls are genetically and statistically more dangerous (admittedly I'd like to see real data on this), choosing to save non-pitbulls first is hardly Orwellian logic. However, even if no animals were ever killed in a shelter, and we humans proactively chose to stop breeding a breed we humans created (and then let all existing pitbulls live out their lives), I don't see much of an ethical problem. This scenario is quite analogous to letting cows/bulls die out as a species, which I presume you'd have no problem with. --Mark Steve Simitzis [steve] Thursday, June 24, 2004 4:54 PM Mark P. Kurowski Cc: Re: PETA On 06/24/04, " Mark P. Kurowski " <mark.p.kurowski wrote: > How is PETA's position on pitbulls " identical " to sport hunters'? perhaps instead of " identical " i should have said " analogous " . sport hunters believe that animal rights purists harm the environment by opposing sport hunting, which they believe serves as a check to overpopulation of " game " animals. likewise, PETA believes that euthanizing pitbulls is okay, because of the perceived benefits to reducing their population, and that opposing their killing harms children. either way, it boils down to humans deciding which animals can live or die for the sake of engineering a more " correct " mix of species, using the orwellian rationale that killing lives actually saves lives. -- steve simitzis : /sim' - i - jees/ pala : saturn5 productions www.steve.org : 415.282.9979 hath the daemon spawn no fire? --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 On Jun 24, 2004, at 5:22 PM, Mark P. Kurowski wrote: > Given that millions of lovable shelter animals are killed each year, > and > given that the pitbulls are genetically and statistically more > dangerous > (admittedly I'd like to see real data on this), choosing to save > non-pitbulls first is hardly Orwellian logic. That sounds like common sense to me, and apparently, to PETA too. tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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