Another one to add to the list. This sort of thing is endemic in society, it's depraved, callous and sadistic and needs to have much harsher penalties attached to it. Also there need to be tougher restrictions on people owning animals/pets as the level of abandonments and incidents of cruelty like this are just unacceptable. A lot of people aren't able to, or don't want to, cope with the responsibility of owning another living being, it's frightening that these people are breeding themselves. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/man-jailed-for-shooting-his-pet-dog-8790129.html
Disgusting behaviour and deserves more than twenty mesely weeks! That dog won't trust another human being again, anyone even flinches in its direction he may react in self defence In addition to this act, how the hell did he expect to get away with it considering... Even if the dog had been killed, the chip would have still worked. The **** tool! I'm all for 'what is done to one is good for enough', treat with the same spoon
Yeah, the reactionary in me says beat him down into a ditch and take pot shots at him with his sodding air gun, but what good would that do. Just re-read the article and had missed the part that says the dog was lying there bleeding out for three days. The most worrying thing is that if a man can treat his dog in that way it's not a great leap to treating a human the same way.
That was a genuine experiment. I studied psych for a while at uni and saw an entire video with scarf wearers being avoided or helped - so supportership does affect some people's lives even to the extent, as you put it, of shaping what we consider to be human decency. I believe we all have core values which are non-negotiable but beliefs are open to challenge and change.
I am like this with human beings too. If a human is capable of beating, raping, torturing, etc that why not treat them in the same way? I'm 100% a believer of "don't do to other that you wouldn't like doing to yourself". Do you think someone that stabbed someone else half a dozen times would want it doing to themself? Would make them think twice if they knew the punishment was a lot harsher IMO
Was that at me and the animal harm - human harm comment? If so, I said that with an event like the Holocaust in mind, it didn't take much for the German people in the late 1930s - 1940s to be incited by a few men to seeing an entire ethnicity/race as being on the same level as vermin and in need of being stamped out. It doesn't take much for (the veneer of) human decency to be shattered and brutality to take its place. What experiment is that with the scarves?
I don't hate animals. I DO hate the stupid humans who attempt to make them equal to humans and give them the same legal rights as humans. I also hate the humans who abuse animals and cause them unnecessary cruelty and pain. That's the end of the hate for me. I really don't like horses. I think of them as stupid over-pampered creatures. It annoys me when jockies and trainers say that a horse is very intelligent. Well any animal that allows you to jump on its back and carry you wherever you want even if it doesn't want to go there is bloody thick if you ask me! There's not much wrong with dogs. It's their owners who make them vicious or obnoxious. As for fundamental beliefs. I have a hard enough time using a written code of beliefs and interpreting them. But I see that this space is a football forum where language and interchange have different limits to those we may use outside. If what or how I say things truly upsets then please feel free to say so either directly or via a PM - perhaps PM is better as dialogue between 2 people is more likely to achieve a viable outcome.
Strange that whilst you point to the German people, you did not contrast their behaviour with those who took up arms to oppose such behaviour. Mankind does have it within themselves to learn
I've disagreed with this on here before. To a degree it is true, but I have had a few dogs in my time and I've treated them all in the same way; cared for them, fed them with decent quality food, trained them, teached them, taken them on walks and generally loved them, yet my current dog is a lot more aggressive than any other I have had. I think it depends on bread of dog as well as the owner. I have no doubt that a dog in the wrong hands can be blamed though
Are you a believer that the bad things we see in the news today have always happened then? Just a case of less publicity?
Not sure I agree with the final part of that. Genocide still happens, despite the discovery and liberation of Germany's concentration camps all those years ago (Syria being the most recent newsworthy example). There are always a minority who don't want to learn.
To paraphrase an existing quote: what's sad isn't that there's evil in the world - there will always be evil and we fool ourselves if we think we can get rid of it - but that good men stand by and let it happen. Yes there's always been bad things but there's an increasing desire by some sections of the media to create sensationalism whether it exists or not.
Bread of dog? I agree though, it can be a mixture of the two, the owners and the breed of dog. Look at my dog, he's my avatar.
Ok, well I had my new away shirt on when I nipped out to the local 24hr shop last week and got 'Disgusting!' yelled at me, not sure what the comment was aimed at shirt or team.
