I do know I’m going to catch all you-know-what for this, however the phrase “murder” on the subject of killing a dwelling organism, doesn’t apply to dogs, cats, pigs, chickens, horses, or any dwelling factor besides human beings. That’s the legislation.
I’ve no respect in any respect for Kristi Noem, however in a means I’ve executed precisely what she did, besides I didn’t boast about it in a e book. Decades in the past I had a cat, it was very sick and in ache, I couldn’t afford to take it to the veterinarian, my roommate had a .22 pistol, and I humanely euthanized my cat with that gun.
Of this I’m sure: I didn’t homicide my cat.
Then I cried for a few hours, and intermittently for an additional week. I’m pondering I’m additionally totally different from Noem in that respect, at the very least.
But you see these definitions? They solely seek advice from the taking of lifetime of a human being as committing the act of homicide.
If it utilized to different animals, equivalent to dogs, then it must apply to all different non-human animals, equivalent to livestock and recreation animals. But we all know it doesn’t. Vegans within the viewers however, when was the final time you cried “Murder most foul!!!” earlier than digging into your hamburger or fried hen or pork chop or fish fillet? Yep, you weren’t terribly frightened concerning the killing of a cow or a pig, have been you?
(You and I could not prefer it, however in some societies it’s (or at the very least was) completely acceptable to devour a canine in the very same was as livestock.)
To use the phrase “murder” aside from strictly figuratively in any other case is to indicate your self as being sensationalistic and crass.
I’d assume we on this neighborhood are above base hyperbole.
Words are vital. To use them after they don’t correctly apply is to cheapen them.
We right here at Daily Kos are higher than that.
