Are ethical dilemmas present in animal abuse? Well lets take a minute to think about this. Humans beating, killing, and using animals for money, that sounds very immoral, and yet we go on as if things are going to change on their own. We watch it happen, and most of us do not do anything. That is an ethical dilemma right there. If we could make restrictions, and bigger cases of examples more people would understand the issue and make a change. Michael Vick, he was an all star football player, and he got into the business of dog fighting. He was sent to jail, but as soon as he got out of jail he was aloud to rejoin the NFL. Theres something wrong with that because although he is an amazing athlete, he took the innocent lives of dogs, and he should have been kicked from the NFL, never mind the fact that he has a dog now. How do you let a former animal abuser own another animal. How about human rights. Although animals are not humans, they still deserve their rights, and yes they are being broken. Last time checked, animals have the right to not be drugged, hit, kicked, whipped, locked up, isolated, or forced to fight for their lives. These rights are not being resolved, and there is only one way. That is to increase the harshness of the penalty. If the animal is not dead, I would say a jail sentence of two to ten years, and a fine of $10,000 that goes to animal abuse foundations. If the animal dies, a jail sentence of a lifetime and all belongings taken away and the value of them goes to animal abuse foundations. This way if you take a life, you give a life, and abusers will have to think twice before they hit that dog, of kick that cat, or whatever it may be. Some people are valuing faith or what is right, and that is completely wrong. In some countries it is part of religion, and culture, however, those beliefs need to be reevaluated because at this point in time they are just inhumane. Rather than abuse animals to celebrate an event, or practice their religion they can find a supplement such as having a family gathering. As the USA I feel as if we are going about this issue scared. I feel as if we know the issue is their in other countries as well as ours, but we are afraid to fight for what is right. We are to nervous that if we tell our friends to stop abusing animals, they could become our enemies. We have to be thinking about how the animals. When we weigh out the scale we should realize that animal safety is more important than making friends, because as America we have to lead by example.
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Really good info you can tell you know a lot about your topic. Good examples about people who abused animals. Good job talking about what people do or what they don't do. Good job though.
ReplyDeleteVery thorough about your information, and any reader would know that you are an expert in your topic. There were also good examples about who abuses animals and how
ReplyDeleteYou information was very detailed and thoughtful. I liked how you showed many examples about animal abuse, like kicking and hitting animals.
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i can tell you really care about the topic because you showed some emotion and i can tell that you really know the topic. also i like how you used examples
ReplyDeleteHello Dan D.
ReplyDeleteNice job starting out with a rhetorical question. Made me want to start reading more. Also, nice tie to Michael Vick. Connections make the blog stronger. I totally agree with you. Animal abuse has to be emphasized, because people treat animals like dirt. Animals should have rights, even if that sounds funny. They should be treated like us.