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[The Bobster]

If you meant ethics all along, why have you been talking about morality? Did you think they were the same thing?

Actually, you haven't even come close to even starting to present an argument, so any notion "debunking" is just, um, bunk. Sort of amusing, really. Where's your argument? I don't see it. It isn't there. That's why you resort so easily to insulting me on a personal level (and my dog, too, by the way, which I don't appreciate at all).

You think that dogs are better than other animals. Why? Well, because you think so. You seem to be a scientist sufficiently knowledgeable that you can say that dogs feel more pain than silkworms, but you've given no evidence, and with all your talk of "morality," the quantifiable nature of pain ought not matter at all. If it's about the ethics of inflicting pain to get food, any pain at all would be too much.

I'm not an expert, and I won't claim to be one, but I do know that the last time I had wang sayoo gooey, the prawns were brought live and wriggling to the skillet on the table, and those little guys tried their best to get out of the skillet. They did not want to die, they did not want to be dinner. Oh, they had very definite opinions about that. But their wishes were not part of the equation that evening. See, I was hungry and they were delicious. That's really all there is to it.

You say that the way dogs are killed is cruel, and of course it is, but when you are told that cruelty exists in most forms of livestock slaughter, you are unfazed, and I think the reason is that the cruelty is not really an issue with you.

You make yourself look weak with all the petty insults, and believe me, they are petty. I've been gone after by folks much better at it than you, and, in your case, it makes your whole position look extremely untenable.

Everything I've said has been factual, and I've shared more here that is relevant than you have. You're all involved with your ego. Get over it.

[SuperFly]

Hey Bobster them prawns can't cuddle up next to you and lick your toes the way us dogs can. They can't fetch your slippers, your newspaper, jump into bed with you and snuggle up next to you the way we can. Dogs are special man, we want to be with you all the time. Prawns do NOT, in fact, they prefer hanging out with their own kind. We only care about loving YOU! Remember that bro!

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[Thunndarr]

I just don't understand how people get so worked up over the fate of a comparatively small number of dogs. People who are vocally opposed to the eating of dogs will simply not have much credibility until they are equally vocal about the consumption of other animal products.

I mean, let's take a look at some other animals who have been slaughtered or tortured orders of magnitude more than dogs.

Chickens: Ok, I grant, they generally aren't pets, and are kinda dumb. Still, we (not me personally) kill chickens by the millions each year for the meat, and egg-laying chickens live in tortuous conditions.

Pigs: Pigs, or so I've heard, are actually smarter than dogs. Some people keep them as pets. Yet, millions of more pigs die each year than dogs.

Cows: We both kill cows for food and keep them locked up and manipulated (some might say tortured) to produce milk.

And, despite the fact that these 3 animals have been slaughtered and tortured an overwhelming number of times more than dogs, you won't see threads about them started up every week on this website like you will threads about dogs.

That is the only problem I have with people who are against eating dogs.

[Scott in Incheon]

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[The Bobster]

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[Scott in Incheon]

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You really love the dictionary don't you. Go back to the dictionary definition and and substitute the word morals for the word ethics and see if you still agree with the defintion and still believe that the words mean exactly the same thing. If you do...then you have won this battle (congrats) and lost the war.

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