The Animal Activism Crazy Thread

The idiocy of not pulling over to the shoulder has nothing to do with the animals.

Who stops for animals?

That's pretty dumb all around. She stopped on a highway. That wasn't some residential street. She stopped on a highway. I expect that's where criminal negligence comes in. You don't stop your car in a lane on the highway.

Of course, a biker who was following close enough to her to wipeout is also deserving of his fair share of "I'm just too stupid to live". The tragedy is that he pulled his daughter into his suicide.

That story really had nothing at all to do with the ducks.

And you're damn straight I stop for deer. If you ever hit one you will also learn to stop for deer.

Deer:Rural::Rats:Urban

Fuck those things. Bambi's mother deserved to die.

Wouldn't really call her an animal activists. I know plenty of women who told me they will intentionally swerve their cars to avoiding hitting a dog/cat/etc. Don't wanna kill the cute you know!

Quaid_sl said:

Am I the only one troubled by the current trend of being more concerned with animal well being than that of humans?

Motorcyclists die after car stops to let ducks cross the road

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Obviously you arent the only one concerned with it if she faces up to life in prison. Isnt this article proof that theyre doing something about it? They threw the book at this bitch.

Quaid_sl said:

Am I the only one troubled by the current trend of being more concerned with animal well being than that of humans?

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I'm an animal guy so yeah, I've no issue with animals > people. In this case? She really shouldn't have stopped on a frigging highway - sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. The only animal I ever hit was a rabbit, and I was driving down a very dark, very winding road and it popped out at the last second. Had I tried to avoid it I could very well have seriously injured myself and my passenger, so the choice was easy, even if I do really wish I hadn't run it over.

I have a friend (she's religious to some extent) who says in every case humans > animals. So I asked, if someone put a gun to your head and said either they'd kill your pets or Jeffery Dahmer, who'd you pick to live? She said Dahmer. I can't agree with that. If you'd pick your pets (and feel free to substitute any other human there - the worst you can think of), then all we're arguing is where to draw the line.

Humans are animals, too, you realize.

Given the choice between my species and another species? Yep. My species every time. Even if it's Hitler versus a dolphin.

Whack that fucking dolphin. We'll deal with Hitler in our time. We'll even mourn the dolphin. Sure as shit ain't nothing on this planet ever going to mourn US getting extinctinated.

Except maybe some specific bacteria. But they don't count.

Dahmer vs dogs?

Shit, there aren't many people I wouldn't be willing to kill to save my puppy. Especially babies.

I mean humans should be smart enough that it never comes to that choice. We also need to point that out. There is a responsibility.

But we're stipulating that something super-stupid happened, and that choice has come.

If animals want to play live action frogger then we should not make it easy for them, let alone get out of the car to stop the game altogether.