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Originally Posted by Azure
I agree as well.
But we both realize cruelty to animals happens in nature too, without our involvement.
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While I have watched my dogs and cats kill unnecessarily, without any moral inhibition, the difference is that we humans can generate moral issues and weigh them while animals have no such burden. That is the cross we have to bear.
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." - Mahatma
Gandhi
In many ways, more so than at any time in history, animals are at the mercy of human beings. It's not a total stretch to think they now survive at our whim. Witness the slaughter of 71,000 coyotes in Saskatchewan in only five months earlier this year.
And again, I go to rodeo's/chucks and have killed gophers by the hundreds merely because they annoy me with their digging in places I consider inconvenient.
Cowperson