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View Poll Results: Have you purposefully killed someone else's pet dog or cat? | |||
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07-04-2008, 12:45 AM | #41 | |
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But the act of killing a pet which wasn't endangering you is mind boggling. We had a lizard that my staff accidentally killed by leaving a heat lamp on, and the loss of that life troubled me. Perhaps I'm but a wuss, but the harming of animals is something I am unable to comprehend. This may affect my manquotient, but so be it.
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07-04-2008, 12:50 AM | #42 | |
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When I get to hell, there are going to be about 1200 potguts waiting for me, still angry that I killed them on the Wyoming prairie when I was 14 years old. Sure, the old rancher was going to poison them anyway, but I still feel bad about it. I used to hunt a lot and enjoyed it, but hunting's different than just killing.
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07-04-2008, 01:05 AM | #43 |
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WHen I was in high school a kid a year younger than me killed a cat in an almost unspeakbly cruel way (I was going to describe it, but just trust me on this). I was convinced he would end up being a mass murderer or a criminal of some sort. Years later I was visiting home and ran into another old firend and we began to catch up on HS days. He asked if I had heard what had happened to the cat murderer. I said no, and expected to ehar a tale of criminal acts. Instead, he told me the guy had just been elected as mayor of a then semi0rural town not far from SLC. Weird.
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07-04-2008, 01:07 AM | #44 |
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Creek, don't mean he is a respectable person when people aren't watching. We can go down the list and look at mayors and city councilmen.
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07-04-2008, 01:12 AM | #45 | |
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I agree completely that itis a predictor. By all accounts, however, this fellow has lived a very exemplart life. The story is only notable to me becasue I think it is an aberration.
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07-04-2008, 01:18 AM | #46 | |
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His position of power gives him more access to the powerless. |
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07-04-2008, 02:09 AM | #47 |
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When I was 6, I caught my pets. One day, I came home with a new turtle and frog, which I put together in a goldfish bowl. The next morning, Frog's leg was hanging out of Turtle's mouth, with no other signs of him. Gruesome. After getting married, my wife bought a cat. We went out of town on vacation, and left the cat with my in-laws (SoCal) with instructions to not let it out of the house (we had paid to have it declawed). They let it out, and a teenage neighbor thought it would be fun to hit it with a bat. Sick. Of course he killed it. I was pretty pissed, but never found out which teenager did it. My wife cried for a week (this was before we had kids).
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07-04-2008, 02:22 AM | #48 |
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Mars, this is the Serengetti plain, and you and your loved ones are not the predators. You are the prey. As are myself and my family.
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07-04-2008, 04:43 AM | #49 |
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My FIL was in the backyard today shooting magpies with his pellet gun.
I watched him kill one....at first, it looked like it exploded in mid-air, feathers flew a bit, then the bird fell down with a small thud. I went inside, grossed out.
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