Would you kill a puppy for $1000000?

Misadventure said:
I know it may seem self-righteous of me to say that I wouldn't kill a puppy but I'd down a burger if I felt like it, but for me, certain animals fall into the "food" categories while other fall into the "extension of the human family" category. Hypocritical, maybe. I bet people's answers would be far different if the question were, would you kill a cow/chicken/whatever your favorite meat dish is here for $1000000.
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A chicken yes, for that price? yes..
A cow, I do not think I could do unless starving they're kinda cute in their own way,
I wouldn't be able to do the chicken if I had seen it grow up and cared for it though.

I'm fine with watching other people butcher those though. but puppies hell no :p.
 
Artisan said:
A chicken yes, for that price? yes..
A cow, I do not think I could do unless starving they're kinda cute in their own way,
I wouldn't be able to do the chicken if I had seen it grow up and cared for it though.

I'm fine with watching other people butcher those though. but puppies hell no :p.
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Yeah, I think the emotional attachment is what makes the difference. I think we're naturally more attached to "pet" animals vs all domesticated animals.
 
Misadventure said:
Yeah, I think the emotional attachment is what makes the difference. I think we're naturally more attached to "pet" animals vs all domesticated animals.
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nah its that chickens never like me and always peck me so I am kinda annoyed as hack with the creatures :p
 
Artisan said:
nah its that chickens never like me and always peck me so I am kinda annoyed as hack with the creatures :p
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LOL! The peruvian side of my family often has chickens as pets. Mt grandfather had this mean rooster that would always peck at him, and yet he cuddled him and loved him. He had no problem killing him for dinner though. They've never seemed emotionally intelligent to me and I've never been able to "bond" with them. But, if you had bonded with one, would it make killing them harder for you?
 
Misadventure said:
LOL! The peruvian side of my family often has chickens as pets. Mt grandfather had this mean rooster that would always peck at him, and yet he cuddled him and loved him. He had no problem killing him for dinner though. They've never seemed emotionally intelligent to me and I've never been able to "bond" with them. But, if you had bonded with one, would it make killing them harder for you?
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When I bond, Im bonded, can't kill my own animals, I could possibly do an unknown chicken in if it was for that amount of money but not my own ^^"
 
The liberty to make fine emotional distinctions between types of animals that are food/pets or expendable/precious is purely a sign of affluence, luxury. If you're a prostitute on the poverty line, or some other person who lives with desperation on a daily basis, you won't be like "NO! POOR PUPPY!" You're much more likely to be like "How do you want me to kill it? Just tell me."
 
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Just estimate the quantity of meat product that you have left on your plate, or thrown away, or failed to eat before it went bad, or discarded while cooking, or otherwise wasted. Estimate the quantity of sea life that was incidentally killed in a catch, in order for you to get the palatable portion. Is that all lesser than the mass of a puppy, the single life of a puppy?
 
invisible said:
The liberty to make fine emotional distinctions between types of animals that are food/pets or expendable/precious is purely a sign of affluence, luxury. If you're a prostitute on the poverty line, or some other person who lives with desperation on a daily basis, you won't be like "NO! POOR PUPPY!" You're much more likely to be like "How do you want me to kill it? Just tell me."
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Good point. I'm counting myself lucky then that I'm not living in poverty. But I don't understand why you're calling out those that are saying they wouldn't do it and then bringing vegetarianism into it. We're all so fortunate that it's a choice that we get to make and not one that must be made out of necessity. What would you do? Kill it or not?
 
Misadventure said:
Good point. I'm counting myself lucky then that I'm not living in poverty. But I don't understand why you're calling out those that are saying they wouldn't do it and then bringing vegetarianism into it. We're all so fortunate that it's a choice that we get to make and not one that must be made out of necessity. What would you do? Kill it or not?
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The reason I'm bringing vegetarianism into it is in an attempt to get people to think about how arbitrary their moral choices are, to say: I will make a decision to finance the institutionalised slaughter of animals through a lifetime of commissions that place the life of the animal at a low monetised value, yet I am above exchanging a single, preferred variety of animal life for a much higher monetary value. One hand doesn't know what the other is doing; one hand is patting the self on the back for unselfishly sparing the life of a precious animal, while the other hand is reaching out for animal flesh with perhaps only tokenistic restraint.

I have no idea whether I would kill it or not. I never know what I will do until I face the circumstances. I prefer not to indulge my self by believing that I would behave in a certain way that I regard as more moral, because in that respect I have disappointed myself so many times that it sickens me to think about it. As far as how badly I have behaved during other times of my life goes, I might as well kill it.
 
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I wouldn't kill an insect for a million dollars, so no. Is it ok to do it? I am sure the puppy thinks no as well!
 
Artisan said:
IF you ever killed a mosquito then you are such a liar right now >: ) :p
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Killing a mosquito for comfort is different than killing it for money.
 
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Dead puppies aren't much fun. Bonus points for naming the author of said song.
 
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