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Originally Posted by Mr. Furious  You're taking it way out of context and blowing it way out of proportion. No one said anyone here was a monster. The people who killed the skunks basically beat the animals to death which is far, far different from a nuisance animal being shot with a high powered rifle. A paintball marker and paintballs are not designed to transfer enough energy to destroy tissue or kill anything. Because of that, what the people in the news story did equated to beating the animals to death in a very slow way.
I eat meat, I don't like skunks and I understand that some animals need to be killed for one reason or another but when an animal needs to be killed it should be done humanely. If you'll notice, the word humane contains the entire word "human" within it. To me, that means that humans should be held to higher standards than the beasties so if you want to belong to the human race, you should treat every person and every animal humanely.
I cannot agree with or feel good about people killing anything in ways that cause the animal pain for any more time than is necessary.
Also, I do not feel it is part of growing up to kill animals with BB guns or .22's just because the animal was unfortunate enough to cross someone's path. When an animal is killed for no reason other than for it's death to amuse the person doing the killing, then it is a bit monstrous IMHO. Ending some thing's life for your pleasure is not healthy or normal. |
actually, i'd call it monsterous, personally. the difference between bows, and pellet guns and whatnot, is that when used properly they'll kill the animal quickly. a paintball gun wont. they had to repeatedly shoot the animal, chasing after it and shooting it more and more till it couldn't run, then shoot it till it died slowly and painfully. which is torture. killing a chipmunk thats been badly injured to put it out of it's misery is nothing like maliciously torturing another animal. there are proper ways to remove nusance animals, and this was pretty damn far from it. also, this wasn't in their backyard where they had the right to determine it a nusance animal, this was a state park. you can't just run around killing things willy nilly in state parks. they're there largely FOR those little nusance animals who've been displaced by sprawling suburbia.
and actually the school CAN punnish them for things done off school property, football is considered an extra-curricular activity. basically you get to play at their sufferance and many schools will uphold a code of conduct if you want to play sports. i knew of several kids on the football team getting kicked off the team after getting busted drinking at a party durring the weeend.