November is not a good month. All the smart people were born in November.
If november is a bad month we may as well wipe it out. Intelligence is overrated. Plus, the smart ones were born in march (don't know where you get your info from...?).
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November is not a good month. All the smart people were born in November.
If I wasn't killing you, but I invaded your home, threatened your family, or kept biting you do you feel you should be able to harm me in self defense? Welcome to a bug's life.So how do people view the squashing of bugs whose killings aren't for food, sport, or self-defense (well, maybe in rare cases like some 7 foot dragonfly in Africa or some **** like that)?
So how do people view the squashing of bugs whose killings aren't for food, sport, or self-defense (well, maybe in rare cases like some 7 foot dragonfly in Africa or some **** like that)?
I try not to kill anything on purpose. I've never liked it when people kill ants for fun (example). Sometimes it is necessary but usually if there is a fly in my house I coax it out the window.
I admit I'm generally quick to squash the annoying ********. However, in my defence, I always feel pretty bad afterwards. Especially if I don't kill it on the first blow and they're struggling and limply wriggling around. Some bugs are very resilient to squashing. I try to give them a quick and painless death.
We all do I guess. And bugs are difficult to feel sympathetic toward considering that they are too small to see their emotions or pain. It doesnt help that they lack any kind of prettiness and cuteness...
For animals such as cows and for veal, I'm aware they may not be treated in necessarily the most humane ways all the time but I can live with it. Maybe it's just the cultural view that makes this seem somewhat hypocritical, I'm not entirely sure.
@ Malleus. I've seen a YouTube video about a South Korean farm. It actually had footage of the dogs being tortured. Probably taken down by now. They hung the dogs from the ceiling and they'd yelp in pain. I think it's because of some belief that the more pain an animal goes through in death, the tastier its meat is.
I've seen some, perhaps it's the same one you're referring to. In either case, I don't consider such individuals as persons although I do acknowledge they are humans. To me, I don't really care what their reasoning is, it's a disgusting act and they should all be arrested and charged on however many counts of the crimes. I'd also say to add onto their sentence, they cannot own a dog and if they do or willingly have a dog enter their house, then they should be arrested for violating a condition of their conditional release. Any act of harming a dog, if arrested for it, they should get imprisoned also.
I don't know much about the laws in South Korea but I think this should occur and if it is already occuring, then put it to work even more.
@ Malleus. I've seen a YouTube video about a South Korean farm. It actually had footage of the dogs being tortured. Probably taken down by now. They hung the dogs from the ceiling and they'd yelp in pain. I think it's because of some belief that the more pain an animal goes through in death, the tastier its meat is.
Humans all over the world do these kinds of things and worse every day. It's horrible, but we are all capable of it. We just need to believe certain things strong enough. A lot of people throughout history have believed that animals have no sentience and therefore such acts do not seem bad. After all, if you believe that the animal is not actually experiencing anything then are you really a bad person? It comes down to ignorance, in my opinion. I don't limit this to dogs. The western meat industry is barbaric. I have to say, the Chinese seem to top everyone else when it comes to inhumane practices. They eat snakes alive, they skin animals alive and throw then on heaps of other skinned animals while they die slowly. It's awful.