jeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · edit-210 months agoYou’re more likely to go to prison for exposing animal cruelty than for committing itwww.vox.comexternal-linkmessage-square214fedilinkarrow-up1914arrow-down151file-text
arrow-up1863arrow-down1external-linkYou’re more likely to go to prison for exposing animal cruelty than for committing itwww.vox.comjeffw@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · edit-210 months agomessage-square214fedilinkfile-text
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minus-squareEmerald@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoSentient beings are not houses or cars. If parents abuse their babies, they will get them taken from them. Same should apply to animals.
minus-squareBradleyUffner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months ago If parents abuse their babies, they will get them taken from them. By the state after a detailed legal process, not some rando off the street after a beer.
minus-squareEmerald@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-210 months agoBut with animals, the state won’t help them. If a baby was being tortured and the state wouldn’t save them, how could you blame someone for taking it into their own hands?
minus-squareYawnder@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months ago“Should” is irrelevant in this context…
Sentient beings are not houses or cars. If parents abuse their babies, they will get them taken from them. Same should apply to animals.
By the state after a detailed legal process, not some rando off the street after a beer.
But with animals, the state won’t help them. If a baby was being tortured and the state wouldn’t save them, how could you blame someone for taking it into their own hands?
“Should” is irrelevant in this context…