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What common thing should not only be banned, but criminalized with mandatory minimum sentences? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] toomanypancakes@piefed.world -5 points 2 weeks ago (20 children)

Killing animals to eat their flesh. Murder is fucked up, human or not.

[–] BryceBassitt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Try telling that to the animals

[–] toomanypancakes@piefed.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Animals don't share our sense of morality and it would be ridiculous to expect them to.

We also don't typically arrest other species.

[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We also don’t typically arrest other species.

"typically"

I'm going to need the examples you're thinking of where we did please... they should be quite amusing with my morning coffee tomorrow :-)

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I'm not them, but

https://www.weirdhistorian.com/a-few-cases-of-killer-pigs-facing-capital-punishment/

Note: I suggest you don't look up "(type of animal) arrested," because most of what pops up is horrible people arrested for doing terrible things to animals. (Although a couple cats have been "arrested" in modern times.) I just happened to remember the pig trials of yore.

[–] hyacin@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Sadly this is not amusing as I had hoped at all ... I should have expected as much. :-(

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 weeks ago

not to mention that when sharks attack people, they often go and kill a shark in retaliation. same goes with dogs who attack people.

[–] commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

this sounds like you are judging individuals based on their membership in a class. this sounds like paternalistic speciesism.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Animals don’t share our sense of morality

That means we don't have to have our own sense of morality 🤡

We also don’t typically arrest other species.

So let them out...?

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