[Kizzy]

What's with all the bizarre hypotheticals? :/

This was just some bloke who as he stated in a moment of madness snapped and killed a dog then dug about in it's flesh for a chip so he could dispose of it without detection.

How anyone here feels about their pets is entirely irrelevant.

[Dollface]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

What's with all the bizarre hypotheticals? :/

This was just some bloke who as he stated in a moment of madness snapped and killed a dog then dug about in it's flesh for a chip so he could dispose of it without detection.

How anyone here feels about their pets is entirely irrelevant.

While i agree that the bizarre hypotheticals are unnecessary; the pets thing isn't entirely irrelevant, stories like this make people think about their pets.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Dollface

While i agree that the bizarre hypotheticals are unnecessary; the pets thing isn't entirely irrelevant, stories like this make people think about their pets.

Yes it makes me think of mine, but there's no reason to start comparing x and y to z is it?...
What he did was, not could not and will not ever be acceptable.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

What's with all the bizarre hypotheticals? :/

This was just some bloke who as he stated in a moment of madness snapped and killed a dog then dug about in it's flesh for a chip so he could dispose of it without detection.

How anyone here feels about their pets is entirely irrelevant.

It's entirely relevant when people are discussing what the appropriate action to be taken is. People are inflating the severity of the crime because they feel warm and fluffy about puppies.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

It's entirely relevant when people are discussing what the appropriate action to be taken is. People are inflating the severity of the crime because they feel warm and fluffy about puppies.

No, your psycho babble about pets and stranger or strange pets and kids isn't relevant.
Of course people are going to react to this in an emotive way it's human nature.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

No, your psycho babble about pets and stranger or strange pets and kids isn't relevant.
Of course people are going to react to this in an emotive way it's human nature.

Yes just like the human and emotive way that people reacted to thousands of immigrants drowning in the med, or young students accidentally killing themselves with medication bought online or... oh no wait people are more upset about the dog.

Obviously.

We should probably just hang the guy who did it I guess. C'mon Dave, hurry up with that death legislation! Don't you realise that a puppy has been brutally murdered???


...meh. I can appreciate that I've been a bit all over the place in this thread, I guess, but I'm finding people's lack of any rational perspective quite bewildering. I always do when it comes to "poor puppy" cases.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Yes just like the human and emotive way that people reacted to thousands of immigrants drowning in the med, or young students accidentally killing themselves with medication bought online or... oh no wait people are more upset about the dog.

Obviously.

We should probably just hang the guy who did it I guess. C'mon Dave, hurry up with that death legislation! Don't you realise that a puppy has been brutally murdered???


...meh. I can appreciate that I've been a bit all over the place in this thread, I guess, but I'm finding people's lack of any rational perspective quite bewildering. I always do when it comes to "poor puppy" cases.

Oh come on... now your bringing up drowning refugees and deceased teens? :/
That really is lurching from the sublime to the ridiculous, I wouldn't say the measure of reactions could, would or should be comparable.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Oh come on... now your bringing up drowning refugees and deceased teens? :/
That really is lurching from the sublime to the ridiculous, I wouldn't say the measure of reactions could, would or should be comparable.

No, they shouldn't, the reaction to the death of an animal should be far less than the reaction to the loss of human life, but it's completely the other way around. The world is arse-backwards.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

No, they shouldn't, the reaction to the death of an animal should be far less than the reaction to the loss of human life, but it's completely the other way around. The world is arse-backwards.

It's not backwards, you can't expect those who have pets to not imagine that was their furry friends killed and express their shock and empathy, I just can't get why you struggle with the concept of compassion for this innocent animal.