This exhibit isn't cruel. (If it is indeed real) Every person that saw it and didn't do anything is cruel. This is a great example of how we jump on any scapegoat we can to be the cause of all the misery that we see and ignore every day in this world, just to justify our own concience.

(I'd like to know how many of the petition signers walk by a homeless person every day without batting a lash.)

(this one has been around awhile though)

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What?

Who in the fuck would see this other than cruelty? This is fucking sick.

This bastard should not only be stopped but incarcerated.

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"Discipline is what the world needs today and etiquette, you know. For one of the noblest things a man can do is to do the best he can." Prince Far I

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Originally posted by CND Who in the fuck would see this other than cruelty? This is fucking sick. This bastard should not only be stopped but incarcerated.

Why? He didn't hurt the beast, he just tethered him to a line. ANY passerby/onlooker could have fed or freed the beast at any time.

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What?

can we start a petition to do this to him? Chain him to a wall, and watch him starve... we'll call it art.

Hoax.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Habacuc_Vargas

But who knows, maybe they are just saying that to throw off the heat.

Either way, it granted him his 15 mins of fame. Like that Corey Delaney kid.

I find it amazing that people get so upset when a dog or cat suffers, but those same people have no problem eating burgers, kfc, etc etc.

Double standard.

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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

---JFK---

A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him.

---Bruce Lee---

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Originally posted by mattW I find it amazing that people get so upset when a dog or cat suffers, but those same people have no problem eating burgers, kfc, etc etc. Double standard.

Totally. I dig your point about the burgers, since the lives of those cows are FAR worse than the fate of this dog. (assuming it's real).

Its funny to watch the armchair activists get all riled up over something so innocuous relative to the attrocities that make up their daily lives. [which, I'm assuming, was the aim of the piece to begin with.]

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What?

For the *real* animal lovers:

- Every year in the U.S., more than 27 billion animals are slaughtered for food.

- Chickens have their sensitive beaks seared off with a hot blade, and male cattle and pigs are castrated without any painkillers.

- The average American man, woman and child will eat more than 35 animals per year or 2,600 over a 75-year lifetime. This includes: 2,555 chickens and turkeys, 33 pigs, 12 cows.

If you love animals, stop eating them.

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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

---JFK---

A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.

Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him.

---Bruce Lee---

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Originally posted by Gen3r4l1ty Totally. I dig your point about the burgers, since the lives of those cows are FAR worse than the fate of this dog. (assuming it's real).

+1

Our 'food chain' in this industrious country has gotten SO fucked. Read any book by Michael Pollan and you'll know what I'm talking about.

It was just a stray dog.

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I love animals.
I also love eating animals.
I love not having to kill and butcher the animals myself.

What I love better than any of the above is the fact I live in a highly specialized society where I do not have to kill and butcher the cute critters that happen to be so tasty.

What I hate is people who try to condemn me for this so called double standard.

Having said that, I really don't understand cruelty for art's sake, nor do I condone cruelty just so people that are so inclined can get their kicks. There has to be a better purpose than that (at least in addition to that).

I could not and would not kill a creature for any reason as long as slaughterhouses and grocery stores exist. I would definately cook and eat it once those two things were done though.

Pre-Zombie-Apocalypse (Pre-ZA) I definately would put humans above animals when it comes to survival. Test away on animals, I say, for medical purposes (not vanity). To paraphrase Penn & Teller: "I would personally strangle every monkey to save the life of one junkie." I even go as far and say round up all the strays and cook em up the ones that can't be found good homes and feed them to the hungry.

Post-ZA, I will be the first person to crush your skull with a crowbar for the sheer joy of it once the zombie apocalypse comes. And I would not have a problem eating you if need be. Hell, I'd kill and feed you to my dog first(if I had one). Actually, fuck that, I'd kill any one of you and throw you in a ditch to rot, or make a wall of corpses to fend of the advancing zombie horde for a few seconds, laughing the whole time, and find my dog some good cow.


P.S. How I do yearn for the Zombie Apocolypse...oh so much...

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