On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Ray Champagne <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm trying to lay off the judgment, trying to understand what it is like to > be in his shoes. > But Erika, re-read the post. The dogs are not being shot for any purpose > other than displacing anger and frustration. Not for any useful purpose > like thinning the herd or making life safer for anyone. > > I'm finding it hard to condone this myself, no matter what it is done "in > the name of". > > What if soldiers were killing Iraqi babies because they were stressed out? > Would that be condonable? > As Jerry pointed out, these aren't dogs where the soldiers either have the option of going, "here, doggie doggie doggie", and giving them a treat, or shooting them. Yes, biologically they're the same dogs that we have here in the US as pets. But they've not been raised as pets and they do not have the disposition of pets. There may be more "humane" ways of thinning the population, and it does bother me to think of dogs being shot just as much as it bothers any of you. But it's a conscious effort to make the distinction that this is not Fido from next door. -- I have failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my life. I love my wife. And I wish you my kind of success. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:294420 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
