Should we execute animal abusers?

[The Return]

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It's generally accepted that animal abusers are more likely to grow up to be child molesters, serial killers, and other forms of anti-social miscreants. Would everyone else here agree with me that animal abusers, especially children, should be executed or worked to death? I do not believe that these people (or any other form of violent criminal) can be rehabilitated, and that they pose too great of a potential threat to humanity to be allowed to live.

Can anyone give me a reason as to why we should not? Also bedwetters, firestarters and others are up for less extreme consideration.

[vazilizaitsev89]

no. just because it tends to be like that doesnt mean it will happen.

[The Return]

In many cases it does. Earth has a devastating overpopulation problem, why not kill the least desirable in an effort to reverse this endemic?

[dagnabitt]

I dont like animal abusers. So yes.

[supperrfreek]

I don't like animal abusers, but they should be punished as the current law allows, maybe with counseling or time in a mental hospital. I believe that when it comes to crimes, especially murder, you must punish the guilty after they commit the crime, or when there's no doubt that they will commit the crime at some point in the future, they should remain innocent until they can be/are proven guilty.

[CosmicZombie]

ya animal abuse is fucked up like why would you even do that does your life suck so much you gotta take it out on animals they have earned more of a right to live then people

[ChickenOfDoom]

The function of law shouldn't be to keep people from suffering, it should be to provide the greatest possible freedom to everyone. Part of that is keeping people free from the threat of violence. A bigger part is letting people do whatever they want so long as it doesn't affect anyone else. Just because some kids tie firecrackers to frogs doesn't mean they're going to go around bombing convenience stores later on. If someone is predisposed towards violence and a lack of empathy towards others, that's their business so long as they intend to follow all the rules. We can make decisions about what to do independent of what we feel like doing, it's called free will. The law should respect that.

[The Methematician]

Originally Posted by The Return

It's generally accepted th......

generally accepted =X= generally proven.....

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For God's sake, we don't even execute murderers anymore, for the most part. Why the hell would we start executing people for something as trivial as animal abuse?

[Azure]

Originally Posted by supperrfreek

I don't like animal abusers, but they should be punished as the current law allows, maybe with counseling or time in a mental hospital. I believe that when it comes to crimes, especially murder, you must punish the guilty after they commit the crime, or when there's no doubt that they will commit the crime at some point in the future, they should remain innocent until they can be/are proven guilty.

Yes, because it can be 100% assured that something that hasn't happened yet, will happen, in 100% of cases.