Accidental animal crueltyI once invented a brilliant game - I'd sit at the top of the stairs and throw cat biscuits to the bottom. My cat would eat them, then I'd shake the box, and he would run up the stairs for more biscuits. Then - of course - I'd throw a biscuit back down to the bottom. I kept this going for about half an hour, amused at my little game, and all was fine until the cat vomited. I felt absolutely dreadful.
Have you accidentally been cruel to an animal?
This question has been revived from way, way, way back on the b3ta messageboard when it was all fields round here.
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rob, Thu 6 Dec 2007, 11:13)
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...I'm not sure that the analogue between animal torture/ harm and genocide/ slavery is a good one. There might be a relationship between my willingness to torture this animal and this person, or between all animals (?of a certain species?) and all people (?of a certain group?), but I don't see how my willingness to torture this animal and all people (?of a certain group?) would have to be linked. Conflict between groups, it strikes me, would have to be explained in terms of socio-economic and genetic factors (in terms of our genes' desier to replicate themselves and eclipse rivals'). There's no social, economic or genetic competition between me and a daddy long-legs that I can see...
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 11 Dec 2007, 12:34,
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