by Policea dog that is allergic to grass....well he's fucked.
That's the way I see it too.
by PeckerwoodKilling animals used to do it for me. Saying as I get into fights on a regular basis, I'm craving something a little more brutal. I think I like you Thrill Kill. You are very wise it would seem.
a little more brutal .. how about .. kill yourself ! Double whammy, you satisfy your urges and you do society a favour ! Problem solved !!
Acts of premeditated cruelty are often about revenge as the base motivation:
Equity bids us be merciful to the weakness
of human nature;
to think less about the laws
than about the person who framed them,
and less about what one said than about what one meant;
not to consider the actions of the accused
so much as the intentions,
nor this or that detail so much as the whole story;
to ask not what a person is now
but what one has always or usually been.
It bids us remember benefits rather than injuries,
and benefits received rather than benefits conferred;
to be patient when we are wronged;
to settle a dispute by negotiation and not by force;
to prefer arbitration to litigation---
for an arbitrator goes by the equity of a case,
a judge by the strict law,
and arbitration was invented with the express purpose
of securing full power for equity.
And I agree with GrandMoff.
Levels of awareness can not be taught.
I agree that putting the dog in a shelter instead of putting a bullet in the dog's head will give the dog a slightly higher chance of survival.
That being said, most shelter animals are put to sleep if not adopted within a certain amount of time, and I'd imagine that sick animals have a higher chance of being euthanized sooner.
For the sake of discussion, what's the difference between putting a bullet in the dog's head and putting the dog in a shelter where it has a x% chance of being euthanized?
Is it that y% chance of its survival? You're absolved if your dice roll wins?
Could the alternative argument of giving the dog a peaceful and unknowing euthanization at home outweigh putting it into a sterile shelter environment where you know that it will most likely end up killed? Since the dog won't have any feelings of being abandoned?
Random moral question, I don't have an answer. Discuss it if you want.
If someone hits a pet with their car you can usually claim for the cost of the animal on their car insurance.
You should either find a willing accomplice who doesn't mind having a claim against them in return for splitting the cheque, or engineer a situation where someone will take the blame for running it over. Best to do the actual killing yourself though to make sure it's properly dead, otherwise they would just end up paying more vet's fees.
by SyntheticSince the dog won't have any feelings of being abandoned?
I don't know about that. Some dogs do feel abandoned by their owners I think.
I had a dog once that I gave away to some strangers (a mother and son). Twice she broke out of their yard and ran all the way back to me. It was quite a distance too and a fairly dangerous one considering she had to cross busy roads on both occasions.
The second time she came back to me I decided to take her back. I discussed it with the people I'd given her to, and they agreed to let her go. She's living at my mother's now though and she seems to be quite settled there.