Sing Sing guard gets year in jail for killing 5 kittens

News Radio 88 ^ | 3/22/02

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

When we get abortion outlawed, you can bet that the punishment will be much worse. Instead of trying to convince people that killing kittens to harm another isn't cruel, why don't you aknowlegde the horrible nature of this crime and then point out that indeed abortion is even worse. If compassion is lacking for the least of our charges (animals), how can I be sure that you have compassion for children? Do you have such little compassion that you must save it up for only the most important reasons?

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Not on this website.

[MississippiMan]

I've been worked up over baby-killers for a very long time, my friend. You're barking up the wrong tree.

MM

[stands2reason]

Wow. Kittens are "property." God, I'm glad you don't live in my neighborhood.

[Betteboop]

Wake up--it has been determined that people who are so cruel to animals are sick and it's just a matter of time till they do something equally sick to a human.

[Sangamon Kid]

A couple of years ago, our local junior high garnered some national attention for a project where kids from school would collect pop tabs - one for every victim of the Holocaust. I wasn't there when they brought in the buckets of tabs into the gymnasium, but I was told that the dreadful reality of the magnitude of that human disaster didn't take long to sink in for all that were present. The somewhat noisy auditorium soon fell silent as bucket after bucket after bucket was emptied onto an ever growing pile on the gymnasium floor. The buckets didn't stop coming. Children and parent alike were reduced to tears in shame of what had happened just 50 years ago. Do you know how long it took to bring in 6+ millions pop tabs? How about 40 million?

[stands2reason]

LOL! What a kook! (her, not you.)

[stands2reason]

You're not a Christian, are you?

[stands2reason]

I can't believe it either. These people could be living in your neighborhood. I've had a cat and a dog murdered by neighbors (in different towns) so I know how it feels. I can't read anymore of this thread because it so sickens me. Those that think it's quite alright to torture animals as long as they are your own "property" because otherwise you think people and animals are equal are morons. Worse, they probably think they are Christians, too.

[Sangamon Kid]

People who have inordinate affection for animals tend to have problems in human relationships.

[CasearianDaoist]

Actually, the opposite has been proven. Mental health increases with affection towards animal. Check out the actuary tables.

[Sungirl]

Wake up folks! It was a litter of kittens, not someone's child.

Wake up....my cats are my kids and are just as important to me.

[Sungirl]

Oh mY GOD!! What kind of monster would do such a horrible heartless cruel thing...especially in front of children!!?? That is unbelievable!!

[Sangamon Kid]

...inordinate affection...

IN-OR-DI-NATE, as in excessive; immoderate.

[Sangamon Kid]

see post #134

[Saundra Duffy]

My Dad made me watch as he shot a bunch of kittens and their mother - that was to show me how hard life on the farm can be. The whole lot of them were sick but it still was an awful sight and he made me watch. Maybe that's why I'm so screwed up. Ha! This story is disgusting and I'm glad the guard has to serve time.

[Aliska]

Didn't know whom to address; really mean "whomever" for the reply to. Catechism of the Catholic Church on animals:

Couldn't find it because I was looking in canon law.

p580, #2415 (won't copy it all):

2418. It is contrary to human dignity to cause animals to suffer or die needlessly. It is likewise unworthy to spend money on them that should as a priority go to the relief of human misery. One can love animals; one should not direct to them the affection due only to persons.

That makes sense to me.

Our society is so mixed together with people of different cultural backgrounds and upbringing rubbing elbows constantly, that my theory is that people turn to animals for affection because they aren't getting it from anywhere else. In short, most people are lonely, even some of the pillars of society because they have no true friends but their pets.

[#3Fan]

I'm against abortion too, so what's your point?