RE: Dolphin mutilation
November 20, 2012 at 3:29 pm
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2012 at 3:40 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(November 20, 2012 at 3:18 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote:(November 20, 2012 at 3:09 pm)Chuck Wrote: Why? bottle nosed dolphins are not endangered, and one does not get go to prison for killing other unendangered animals, say, tuna.
This is not fishing, but animal torture for the sake of torture.
Dolphins are also intelligent creatures, which at least in my mind makes it worse.
I would deplore the brutal killing of most animals for no reason.
Slaughtering a cow humanely for burgers is different from hacking open a cow in the middle of a field just to see it die.
Would you be this outraged if a dead tuna washes up with the same signs of abuse?
Just because one deplore something in particular doesn't mean it is good practice to increase the complexity, waterdown the consistency, and magnify the difficulty in enforcing of the legal code just to cater to one's own special squamishness.
It is said a chief cause of the gradual corruption of society and state is the ever increasing complexity of its laws resulting of ever multiply special cases catering to special interests. Corruptissima Repubblica plurimae leges
(November 20, 2012 at 3:23 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Note that I said "intentionally and needlessly". Regardless of what the law has to say on the subject, these dolphins were not killed for food. One can only speculate as to why. "Kicks" comes to mind..
"Sports" fishing seems hardly to have any purpose other than kicks. If food is the purpose the fisherman can go to a sea food restaurant and eat it for much less.
The point is a law should not be so constructed as to, on the one hand, claim to forbid something, and on the otherhand, allow itself to be so transparently and effortlessly bypassed.
