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>>>>I suspect it comes from the fact that the dogs aren't thinking creatures and don't have the choice of calling the cops or a lawyer or leaving to go somewhere else. I know that many women feel they also don't have those choices, but in fact, they do.
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>>>>Wife beating is a despicable behaviour too, but there is still the sense that the dogs didn't choose the life they have, while humans did. Maybe it was a rotten choice and now they feel stuck but there was that initial choice that dogs simply don't have.
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>>>>It's similar to the fact, at least I think it's a fact, that the whipping of a slave who has no recourse to justice is seen as a more horrendous crime than the whipping of a free person who does have some sort of recourse.
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>>>... or our values are all screwed up.
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>>I'm not sure that's it though. I think human beings will always see more horror in the abuse of the helpless, and I am not the one who wants to dispute the values shown by that.
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>Well there are humans who can't speak, much less defend themselves, who are being slaughtered every day in this country. But I guess it's just a choice.
>Lets just drop it.....

Ah, that old chestnut.