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Cops kill cow after wild chase through Pocatello's north side

But there is a perfect solution... do nothing.

Let me eat my steak in peace and I won't bother you about your tofu sandwich. It would be much more practical than the fascist play you would have to impose to see your vision come to fruition.
Yes, but let's PLEASE keep being fascist toward other animals! Jebus... you're such a hypocrite.
 
Fascism is a human construct not applicable to cattle.
Humans made up the word to describe a certain action that is applicable to all. If you are forcing your will upon other animals without their consent then you are being fascist towards those animals. Or do you think they willingly meet their deaths head on?

When cattle start protesting en masse maybe I'll reconsider.:lol:
Well! That must mean you could care less what happens to human fetuses, children, or the severely mentally impaired since they also cannot protest for their rights!
 
Humans made up the word to describe a certain action that is applicable to all. If you are forcing your will upon other animals without their consent then you are being fascist towards those animals. Or do you think they willingly meet their deaths head on?


Well! That must mean you could care less what happens to human fetuses, children, or the severely mentally impaired since they also cannot protest for their rights!

Consent? :lamo:lamo:lamo
 
Humans made up the word to describe a certain action that is applicable to all. If you are forcing your will upon other animals without their consent then you are being fascist towards those animals. Or do you think they willingly meet their deaths head on?


Well! That must mean you could care less what happens to human fetuses, children, or the severely mentally impaired since they also cannot protest for their rights!
So let me get this straight...

You don't value human life any more than you value the lives of cattle?
 
So let me get this straight...

You don't value human life any more than you value the lives of cattle?
Not really. Why should I? It seems you're the one who devalues certain humans if they cannot protest on their own behalf.
 
Not really. Why should I? It seems you're the one who devalues certain humans if they cannot protest on their own behalf.
Show me one thing I've posted that represents a devaluing of human life. You can't, because I didn't. All you can do is repeat your ridiculous position that human constructs are applicable to other species. They aren't. It's delusional garbage.
 
Show me one thing I've posted that represents a devaluing of human life. You can't, because I didn't. All you can do is repeat your ridiculous position that human constructs are applicable to other species. They aren't. It's delusional garbage.
Well it's seemingly the case that you devalue at least SOME human life if you do not apply these ideas to those who can't speak on their own behalves.

"It's delusional garbage". LOL! Why, because you say so? Please explain why it's just IMPOSSIBLE to apply what we do to each other to other animals.
 
Went thru that with a horse that broke thru a fence one time. Damn that horse could run and jump. A big young race horse. $25,000 horse. Was blocked in an alley by pickup trucks. Jumped the trucks. Someone did get a rope around it's neck. Jerked it right out. Police cars and people in 4X4s chasing, fearing it'd run out on the highway causing an accident as it ran thru alleys and the railroad tracks a block over. Able to jump short fences, the vehicles simply couldn't follow, people scrambling to try to figure where it was off to.

An older fellow who always had raised horses, a rancher, finally convinced the police and everyone of the obvious solution.

Just stop chasing it. "Leave it alone and it will go home. Its running because you're chasing it."

About a quarter hour later like appearing out of nowhere it strolled back thru the fence it has busted and headed straight for the water trough.

Yeah, chasing a cow with sirens running and shooting at it will have it keep running. But it was probably an exciting chase.

Home, in this case, was an unlikely destination. The animal bolted from the kill line at the meat plant not from a family farm. ;)
 
Well it's seemingly the case that you devalue at least SOME human life if you do not apply these ideas to those who can't speak on their own behalves.
That isn't what I said at all. Nice try at twisting my words, though. It might have worked if it wasn't so pathetically transparent.

I apply these ideas to all humans. I just don't apply them to non-humans.

"It's delusional garbage". LOL! Why, because you say so? Please explain why it's just IMPOSSIBLE to apply what we do to each other to other animals.
Because we are human and they are not.
 
Come on, tell the truth. Nobody can love salad. It may be a necessary evil, but nobody can love it.

When I was dieting, I actually did love salads. Anything and most everything is tasty when that's the only choice you have.

I stopped dieting on Labor day, and I now find salads disgusting.
 
That isn't what I said at all. Nice try at twisting my words, though. It might have worked if it wasn't so pathetically transparent.

I apply these ideas to all humans. I just don't apply them to non-humans.


Because we are human and they are not.
I did not twist your words. You said that maybe you'd reconsider if cows started protesting which indicated their species has nothing to do with it. If the reason IS merely because we are human and they are not your "logic" is nothing more than discrimination. Tantamount to saying black humans do not deserve consideration because we are white and they are not.
 
The wolf needs to eat the rabbit to be healthy, but we do not. Also, wolves and other carnivores cannot be said to "know any better".

What you are not understand is that animals like the rabbit were put on this earth to be eaten.

Why is it OK for wolf to eat them but not a human.

As you think we are animals, why differentiate between the two?
 
I did not twist your words. You said that maybe you'd reconsider if cows started protesting which indicated their species has nothing to do with it. If the reason IS merely because we are human and they are not your "logic" is nothing more than discrimination.

That's called being facetious.

Tantamount to saying black humans do not deserve consideration because we are white and they are not

When all else fails pull the race card?
 
So your answer is "let them go extinct"

Sure some wild versions of these animals might continue to survive somewhere, but the common breeds we are familiar with would disappear from the face of the earth, reducing genetic diversity.

And have you considered the fact that a farm without such animals is an inefficient farm and generally requires chemical inputs to keep it running? Animals such as chickens, ducks, goats, sheep, cows, etc do not merely provide meat. They provide many benefits to the farm and I'm not just talking about fertilizer. They also can till the soil (without the use of petroleum products), eliminate weeds (again, without the use of petroleum products), and eliminate bugs (again, without the use of petroleum products)

If those animals go extinct, how do you propose farmers take care of weeds and insects without using petroleum based chemicals? How will they fertilize their soil?

Cows are going extinct?

Which of those critters "tilt the soil?" :confused:

You're not a farmer, are you?
 
Because it fits his narrative.

Well yes, but I was looking for an answer that meant something to the rest of the world.
 
All it says is "the cow" over and over. The cow didn't have a name?

We should name the cow out of respect.
 
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