No one on this thread was justifying such an eventuality.
A lot of the comments on this thread do not sound like they come from anyone with the moniker of "conservative".
OK.
You all rather sound like liberals.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Put your brain on.
You first.
We kill animals every day for food.
Correct. For food - not for kicks.
The local animal shelter kills them for the hell of it to keep them off the streets.
Not "for the hell of it" but for public safety.
Farmers kill them because they threaten other animals.
Correct. To protect their livelihood, not for kicks.
Misdemeanors are all such practices should ever be prosecuted as.
That's your opinion.
All animals are only property, despite what our hearts feel like when a pet is lost.
Animals are living things, and are not therefore like inanimate pieces of property.
By the way, would you feel so bad if a dog was beat to death if it had attacked someone?
Of course not. But we're not discussing self-defense, we're discussing killing an animal just to get your jollies.
The dog is killed just the same.
This is like saying that a man who is killed by a burglar and the man who kills a burglar are morally equivalent. You clearly don't have "your brain on".
Should such an act be prosecuted as "Dogslaughter"?
No more than a man who kills a mugger threatening his life should be accused of manslaughter.
Get over it.
Sir, you are clueless. It is one thing to take an animal's life for food or out of some other necessity. It is another to enjoy killing it just for fun. Would you compare a serial killer to a soldier?
Sounds to me like you're the liberal on the thread, since you can't draw simple moral distinctions.
Sounds like a hate crime argument to me. Should we punish hunters who kill for food yet enjoy the sport involved in killing? The problem is one person's necessity(Hunter) is another person's murder(PETA).
When I see stuff like this I am more concerned about the increasing arguments for animal rights. And like it or not, these kind of rulings set precedents.
I agree that what he did is sick but 18 months in prison is inconsistent and silly when we have people convicted of vehicular homicide who serve only a few months.