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| DATE | 2005-03-29 |
| FROM | Billy
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Weird Useless News
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Inker, Evan wrote:
> Both these families should be taken out back and shot for wasting everyone's
> valuable time and tying up the Court System...And the Dog should be turned
> over to Taco Bell
You obviously don't have an 11-year-old.
If these families are wasting "everyone's time", what are you doing
forwarding it to a mailing list?
I think treating domestic companion animals as livestock misses
most of the emotional value placed on them. My cat is worth
nothing in dollars. Someone deprives me of my cat, he owes
me nothing in civil damaages. Obviously people don't keep cats
around because they like to be surrouned by valuable things
in the house. The problem is that the court assigns a
position-neutral value to the object "cat" based on breeding
and age, or whatever. The court SHOULD be determining what
the cat is worth TO ME, not what it's worth to Taco Bell
or to the "Free Market". If a chihuahua is worth $600
(guessing), then it would be irrational to bring it to the
vet for a $1500 operation or to spend $30/month to buy
its medicine for 5 years. Yet people do it.
I'm with the homeless Rocco Fund people on this one.
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