[quote=JJ Doe]
Adora! N-n..no… *Sniffs* This is unfortunate... @Ozerath: Oz! Welcome back!@Blackwell: A…are you an undead? Glad to see you are still alive, undead or not :) Jack would have been quite lonely without Kat.JJ’s Random Comment of the Day:When I read about laws such as "It's illegal to take a lion to the movies”, I can only assume someone did it. How do people intend enforce laws like “It's against the law for animals to have sex in the city limits”? Arrest the animal? Have them pay a fine? I doubt animals (excluding humans) care about human laws. Or are they inadvertently talking about humans? Well I guess city dwellers aren’t allowed to have sex, then.
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I think it's the fact that animals aren't sentient, and so they have no means to act out of cruelty. They do such things to survive, so there is no concept of murder or rape. It's a matter of surviving and passing ones genes on! A human wouldn't think of murdering a baby to inseminate a female like chimps and bears and most other animals to. A women wouldn't be like, "omg you killed my baby, so I guess I have to breed again," and it induces estrus. A human killing a baby is an act of cruelty, whereas a chimp killing a baby in front of the mother is an act of survival.

If you watch Lucy, which I did and it was amazing, Morgan Freeman's character brings up a good point about immortality and how, unless a habitat is inhospitable, then a being will look to pass on genes and survive, rather than achieve immortality.

"If its habitat is not sufficiently favorable, or nurturing, the cell will choose immortality, in other words, self-sufficiency and self management. On the other hand, if the habitat is favorable, they will choose to reproduce — that way, when they die, they hand essential information and knowledge to the next cell, which hands it down to the next cell, and so on. Thus knowledge and learning are handed down, through time."

Dunno how reliable that quote is, but I think it makes quite a bit of sense. *Nod* And I liked that movie and it was said by Morgan Freeman, so it must be true.

Regardless, it's all about survival and, with animals limited lifespan, survival means reproducing by any means necessary. That means killin' babehs and inseminating females against their will. It's terrible... very, very terrible, but it's also very common in the animal kingdom. Humans are sentient, though, so concepts like that don't stand well to reason, especially when, with our intelligence, we have better means of going about reproduction other than rape and murder. So, testing that theory and going by logic, it would be an act of cruelty to commit such crimes when we are able to take advantage of more efficient options. Our population is growing at an exponential rate, so there's the evidence to that.

At its base, we have laws for order, but we all know laws are in place for many, many more reasons other than order and sometimes those reasons subtly cross the threshold of necessity and can be considered borderline cruel.

But yeah, I think the movie also quotes that humans are the only animals capable of willing cruelty. Though, that can be challenged by certain, more intelligent animals.

Like the dolphin, which are dick bags of the ocean.

Anyway, I went on a tangent very unrelated to your post. Regardless, when laws like that are made, they're directed toward humans. If a lion comes into a movie theatre, people aren't going to be like, "Lion, that's against the law!" they're probably going to be like, "Who the hell let out the lion?" Because it's not the lions fault, as it has no concept of human laws and other things governing us as beings because Lions aren't sentient creatures. Or at least, they don't have the capacity to reason quite as much as humans. You point the finger at the human and not the creature as laws aren't made to govern animals. Though, I'm pretty sure they put down animals if they get out of the zoo or harm humans, which is more law of protection rather than laws to govern animals.

I dunno.

This is just me stating that I am here and that I will post sometime this weekend. @_@