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Originally Posted by corporatejay
So, killing a human in self-defense, during times of war, is the EXACT same thing as randomly walking up to someone on the street and shooting them in the back of the head?
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In self defence as in war, the person killed was trying to kill you. So if you hunt like the guy in South Park who yells "IT'S COMING RIGHT FOR US!!!" before shooting the animal, I guess you have a point.
Whether a calf is being raised for veal, a buck is shot, or a cat thrown in a microwave... an animal suffers and is killed. So the difficulty with enhancing laws to curtail the latter is to continue to allow the first two.
There is a reason why the Canadian Sports Fishing Industry Association was against C-17. C-17 became C-50 and THAT got held up by animal use industries seeking a complete exemption from the law.
Here is what I'm trying to get at. This is why those people that throw cats in microwaves will never be properly punished:
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/185217
The federal governments, both Liberal and Conservative, have been trying to amend the laws to stop animal abuse but are having difficulty finding wording that would outlaw "cats in microwave" but still allow hunting, fishing and animal agriculture.