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BAC wrote:
"John Edgar" wrote in message oups.com... How can it be inhumane? We are not dealing with humans, but animals and vermin at that. I'm assuming you are responding to a post which suggested that killing squirrels by drowning might be considered inhumane? Do you believe it is impossible to be inhumane to any non-human animal? If so, how would you define 'humane'? From the Chambers Dictionary: - humane adj 1 kind and sympathetic. 2 said of a killing: done with as little pain and suffering as possible. 3 said of a branch of learning: aiming to civilize and make more elegant and polite. humanely adverb. humaneness noun. Nothing whatsoever to do with 'human' except it's usually humans doing the killing. -- In memory of MS MVP Alex Nichol: http://www.dts-l.org/ |
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