Do you sympathize with animal rights? (Question of the Day 12-19-10)

Bear (hahahaha) with me on this one. I had trouble placing the answers to cover all bases, so just pick whichever sounds the most accurate for you. It's not all taken literally (i.e. I don't mean you REALLY are a PETA member, but that you support the extreme/protesting side of animal rights), etc.

I could point blank shoot a dog in the face with a glock and not feel anything. I voted option D.

I don't feel comfortable picking any of those options.

Where did you get these 'ratings' from? 
 
I support animal rights, but I'm not a terrorist-supporting lunatic PETA member either. C.

I support hunting but I also think when animals are killed it should be as humanely as possible.

Option C should have been called "Medium Rare Sympathy" HAHAHAHAHAHA!

C.

B. I guess. 
 
I'm not going to tell people they shouldn't hunt, but at the same time I'm not going to pretend to understand why people do it in this day and age.

D. People treat animals with more sympathy than other people now a days.

There aren't really enough options. I would probably fall between B and C. Sure, I like meat, but I think there are both ethical and unethical ways to handle and subsequently kill the animal.

A. But fuck PeTA. Fuck them high and hard. Fuck them 'til their heads fall off.
 
Fuck PeTA.

"There aren't really enough options. I would probably fall between B and C. Sure, I like meat, but I think there are both ethical and unethical ways to handle and subsequently kill the animal. "

Fuck that, I fucking eat cows because they're delicious.

I like these threads, but honestly, if you're going to continue doing these (and making them interesting/insightful) then you really should start putting a bit more thought into the possible responses :( They always seem silly, inaccurate and/or non-representative of the variety of views people can hold. I chose B btw.

Option D should have been "I EAT MY PETS!"

C. I hate how in the movies 1k people will get massacred, no one cares; then a dog dies and everyone's all like "awww..." 

Fun to pet better to chew

B. Peta are idiots, animals are food, but killing animals shouldn't be sport. Cosmetic testing on animals is also ridiculous.

"I could point blank shoot a dog in the face with a glock and not feel anything. I voted option D."

Hunting keeps the deer population in Pennsylvania under control.  No matter what, you'd have to kill those deer some way.  That's the crazy think about empathy, you gotta be cruel to be kind.

" @HitmanAgent47 said:

"I could point blank shoot a dog in the face with a glock and not feel anything. I voted option D."

There goes his vote for Best GB User of 2010.  It's all politics, man. You just lost the support of many. "

I think PETA and just about every charity organization are corrupt idiots who I wouldn't give my spit to if they needed it, but I support what they claim to do in spirit

Not a fan of PETA. I am a vegetarian though. I mostly do it for health reasons but do have sympathies for animals. Wouldn't go back to eating meat.

Killing animals just to kill them is wrong. Anything else, I really don't care about.
 
I also hate PETA. Everything they do is so damn stupid.

I'm a fan a Peter Singer; from a philosophical perspective I'm very pro animal rights. 
  
But I'm not a vegetarian, so when it comes to animal rights I'm kind of a hypocrite. 

I actually thought that D showed more sympathy than C. 
 
 D was really the only one I agreed with, because I think that eating meat is completely normal and should be done. 
 
 However I can't agree with C, because I don't really support hunting unless the food will be eaten, since some people just do it for fun but don't use the animal for anything. And I do care how animals are killed because although I do want meat, I would not like it if the cows had their ears cut off first and then were forced to watch season 1 of hannah montana before they were packaged.  
 
And I don't agree with B because animals kill and eat animals so why shouldn't humans. If we aren't killing the animals because of their feelings, what they are probably actually feeling is how dumb we are for not killing them as they kill each other. 

Yeah I can't really vote for any of these, I like pets but I definitely don't support hunting.  And I fucking hate animal rights activists, 95% of them are either pompous arseholes or dangerous militant sociopaths.  Also I like Bacon.

" I actually thought that D showed more sympathy than C.   D was really the only one I agreed with, because I think that eating meat is completely normal and should be done.   However I can't agree with C, because I don't really support hunting unless the food will be eaten, since some people just do it for fun but don't use the animal for anything. And I do care how animals are killed because although I do want meat, I would not like it if the cows had their ears cut off first and then were forced to watch season 1 of hannah montana before they were packaged.   And I don't agree with B because animals kill and eat animals so why shouldn't humans. If we aren't killing the animals because of their feelings, what they are probably actually feeling is how dumb we are for not killing them as they kill each other.  "

" I like these threads, but honestly, if you're going to continue doing these (and making them interesting/insightful) then you really should start putting a bit more thought into the possible responses :( They always seem silly, inaccurate and/or non-representative of the variety of views people can hold. I chose B btw. "

As long as it's for food and the species isn't endangered, let 'em hunt. 

I am very humanocentric.   
If you think that an animal's life is equal to or more important than a humans, then I think that you are a problem for society.   
If you get more upset when you hear about some horse dying, that a member of your own species, then I instantly dislike you. 
I like eating meat.  I don't care much about where it comes from, but obviously I'd rather have the animals killed in the most humane way possible.  I think unnecessary cruelty to living things should be discouraged.  I think Michael Vick is an asshole.  On the other hand, I think that PETA is an organization of steaming, seeping assholes.  I don't want to hear about how special animals are.   
 
They don't write poetry. 
They've never created art. 
They've never explored the galaxy. 
They don't have the emotional or intellectual capability of feeling the same amount of compassion for you, as you do for them. 
We are better.  We are more important.  Period.

Damn it, accidentally voted D. 
This is actually a hard question. I think PETA are a bunch of d-bags and should jump off a cliff, but hunting for sport (not for food) and animal abuse isn't cool either.
B and a half.

They don't write poetry. They've never created art. They've never explored the galaxy. They don't have the emotional or intellectual capability of feeling the same amount of compassion for you, as you do for them. We are better.  We are more important.  Period.

Oh, and I'm fine with hunting and fishing.   
Yes, I do think there is a significant difference between someone hunting deer and someone killing their pet cat or dogfighting.  One is an accepted sport, and the others are early indications of psychopathy.    Oh, and bullfighting?  It's BULLSHIT.  I consider myself a good person, but I find it very hard to sympathize with people who get gored by bulls.  They stab them with swords and then act like big heroes.  That pisses me off just because of how cowardly it is. 
 
Like those assholes who used to shoot lions and then pose over their body like they accomplished some Herculean task.  Fuck you.  You did nothing.  You shot a cat.  Big deal.  If you had wrestled it to the ground and broke its fucking neck, then you can act like a tough guy and take pictures.  But you did NOTHING.  You shot an animal with a gun.  A child could do that.  You're a PUSSY. 
 
Keep in mind I don't have a problem with hunting.  Just with people acting like they are "warriors" because of it.  

" @Meowshi said:

They don't write poetry. They've never created art. They've never explored the galaxy. They don't have the emotional or intellectual capability of feeling the same amount of compassion for you, as you do for them. We are better.  We are more important.  Period.

Can people also be measured the same way?  Certainly some people are more important than others.  Perhaps they shouldn't be treated as well either? "

" @Diamond said:

" @Meowshi said:

They don't write poetry. They've never created art. They've never explored the galaxy. They don't have the emotional or intellectual capability of feeling the same amount of compassion for you, as you do for them. We are better.  We are more important.  Period.

Can people also be measured the same way?  Certainly some people are more important than others.  Perhaps they shouldn't be treated as well either? "

No, such an attitude is incredibly bad for society, and in my opinion - that makes it wrong.   "

What have animals ever done for me?

Yes, I'm not entirely sure how the conversation got steered here.

PETA is an evil, evil organisation. C.

B. I know people all have a different opinion on this matter and I don't want to shove my own in everyone's face. All I'm going to say is that it's not right to brutally kill animals. Yes, I understand they can be used as food but you don't have to kill them in such a malicious manner. Animals do feel and they are living beings...there's no need to cause them unnecessary pain.

 ok i didnt pick anything cause i would say im in between B and C...  animals should be treated fairly but i honestly dont give a fuck if its cows or chicken cause i mean we got plenty of those.  JUST GET ME MY PROTEEINNNN.   and i dont really support hunting but im not against.  though i dont care about how animals are killed, i care about how they're raised so ya im a semi-hippy, whatever in the world that is....

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I could point blank shoot a dog in the face with a glock and not feel anything. I voted option D.

"

Here's what I think... 
 
The circle of life exists, and it has existed for thousands upon millions of years.  Trying to interfere with that is fucking stupid.  HOWEVER, there are practices that are absolutely cruel and unnecessary that fuel human greed and gluttony.  Should ortolan be prepared the way it is?  No.  It's fucking disgusting that a human would treat something, especially something as innocent as a bunting, that way.  Do foxes or other animals need to be skinned alive and deal with the pain and horror of that in order to have their fur turned into coats that sell for shitloads of money?  No, it's not a necessity - it's a stupid fucking luxury.  Does poaching need to happen for the ivory of an elephant's tusks?  NO! 
 
The idea of killing animals for luxury is fucking stupid, and in turn, THAT is what I fight for:  the rights of animals to not be harmed and maimed for the LUXURY of humans.
 
Meanwhile, there are people that bitch about cows being mistreated.  Look - cows are food and clothing, just the same as we are food to a lion or a tiger.  The way I figure it - if it is something that would be done for the needs of survival and/or protection, then it's not fucking cruelty.  It's the way of life.  They say "well, the blood doesn't need to be drained and this and that", but those people don't understand the reasonings for those things.  "Slitting a cow's throat to bleed it is fucking cruel".  You know what's even more cruel?  The idea that you people would rather that cow's meat cause an infectious disease that could become an epidemic and kill even MORE people and livestock.  *ugh* 
 
That's my stance.  Eat what you kill, wear what you kill, but only kill out of necessity - not luxury.

I've dissected a few animals in my lifetime, some for fun, others in a classroom, their capacity for intellectual thought is inferior to AI, and i hardly believe feelings are a substitute. So no sympathy, thats not to say i don't like pets, i just don't think they deserve rights. Next thing you know some peta member is gonna want lions vote.