Posted on 08/03/2007 5:21:20 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Before this is over -- in fact before it barely gets started -- there will be those out there more than willing to fan the flames of stupidity, trying to craft this into something it is not. There will be idiots out there who will attempt to diminish the severity of the crime, as if despicable acts of cruelty against dogs are merely some cultural and class-based misunderstanding.
This is not exactly what I would call a smart line of defense. Ive heard from rednecks and country boys and inner-city underground cultists who swear dog fighting and cock fighting isnt much different from ultimate fighting, and that anyone with a healthy blood lust would understand. That of course is preposterous. Animals have no free will. Humans do. If a man chooses to engage in a no-holds-barred caged brawl, thats his business.
But animals have no such options in the fight business.
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Here is a video from Chappels show on “keeping it real.”
I disagree. Man, by nature, is more good than bad. Otherwise the human race would have died out a long time ago. Most of the world lives fairly peaceably. This has always been so. Throughout history, conflict has represented the exception, and not the rule.
Man in a state of nature is uncontrolled, violent, and selfish
Can you name a significant society today that could be typically and thoroughly described as such? Or does this represent some imaginary past state of the human race?
But in an advanced society, we establish rules and enforcement mechanisms that create a more harmonious environment in which to live.
Can you name a significant society today where this is not true? Any past society? These things hold true for the most primitive societies that I can think of.
In fact, modern society has morally retrogressed, significantly. No society in human history has killed its unborn on a scale comparable to today. According to Peter Kreeft, when some African primitives were informed of abortion in the West, they were dumbfounded.
We make it. It's not something that springs out of thin air. It's a construct.
I think this is the crux of the issue. Laws don't emerge from nothing. They reflect abiding, eternal principles. Law is the working out of these principles for particular people, places, times and circumstances. "Housing by-law, section 2B," for example, may seem "artificial," but at its root is a principle that is recognized by all people, the notion of private property. All people in all times have recognized that theft is wrong, and implicit in the notion of theft is the notion of private property.
Beautiful dogs. Just beautiful. My girl died in June, and I still don’t know what to do. Guess that’s part of why I’m so vehement on this subject.
Thanks...my big guy just died a few weeks ago, and I still catch my little one and I looking for him. It’s not easy filling a 107-lb. hole in your life.
I stay away from large cities. The scarcity of civility, and the brutality, is more than I can cope with. Giving credit for “civilization” to urban dwellers is beyond me.
Living out in the boonies means that you often have to do things unthinkable to the “higher classes”. There is a cluster of “trailers” and basic houses, maybe 100 people, in the area around me, no one ever need lock their doors.
Maybe we are civilized, and what you do to make a living, or what you live in, have nothing to do with it.
Here are some “redneck” pictures for you.
http://www.pbase.com/tsiya/root
http://photobucket.com/albums/v244/tsiya/
Fortunately the guy wasn't hellbent on killing me, just keeping me quiet. Self defense is not a 'bloodlust'. I see nothing similar in dog or cock fighting and defending your life.
Great pics swampsniper!
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