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Give me a break! Yeah, it might have been cruel, but to send the guy up for a year when thousands of baby killers get off scott free shows the pathetic moral climate of our society.

You are spot on (this coming from a vegan). The man's real crime was killing cute animals. I wonder if the judge has ever been to a slaughterhouse?

You are spot on (this coming from a vegan). The man's real crime was killing cute animals. I wonder if the judge has ever been to a slaughterhouse?

Our laws and ethics do not operate within a vaccuum. We use common sense and cultural values to realize that cruelty to animals that are commonly kept as companions and pets, and not as food or pests, is wrong. A dog does not equal a cockroach in the eyes of our culture, our ethical structure, or our legal system, and nor should it.

Just the same as the law recognizes that "murder" in self-defense is not the moral equivalent of premeditated, 1st degree murder.

PS-The various states of the USA have regulations on the treatment of animals in slaughterhouses. Abuse is not endorsed in slaughterhouses either.