cat shootings

[missydog1]

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Originally posted by Hunt Stoddard

Again, even if you don't like cats (or dogs), that's only half the issue. Cats have owners who love them. Killing them is an indirect attack on the lives of human beings who own them. (Humans, you know, as in the most dangerous predator there is?) You got to ask yourself how many people in your close vicinity you want hating your guts.

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So well put.

MarkP, what if a neighbor kid stands out on the sidewalk in front of your Dad's house and does something that makes him apoplectic? It could be just as bad as a dog tipping a trash can. Does he get to go slap the kid? Or should he talk to his parents and work it out if he can't accept it and chill out?

Annoyance -- something we all deal with from many sources in life.
Killing "members" of a person's family because you're ticked off -- not acceptable.
Pets are family members. Another's understanding of why or how that it is true is irrelevant to the truth of it. The family defines who is part of the family, not an outsider.

People are not allowed to hurt kids or dogs or cats just because the people don't like them. I could be firmly convinced that kids are pests and the planet is over-populated, but that would give me no moral right to treat kids as pests by harming them.