Dr. Kevorkian: Animal Edition

[The Catalyst]

Hypothetical:

Let's say you're out walking in the wilderness with your friends and you happen to come across a beaver. In a moment of excited curiosity, you decide to pick up the beaver using your shirt as a protective barrier between you and the potentially rabid animal. After your friends take a few snapshots of you holding the beaver, you let it go and allow it to return to it's normal life.

One of your friends, most likely disturbed and jealous of the attention you got when you were holding the creature decides to throw a rock at the defenseless animal. As if the whole scene was being orchestrated by some higher power, the rock collides with the beaver's head and the animal begins to go into convulsions.

The rest of your friends give exclaim with varying emotions that range from disgust to horror to fascination to sadness and even joy.

You, on the other hand, are shocked by the sight of the event, having just held the animal in your hands like a small child quickly forming a bond with it wishing you could keep it, and you have a decision to make. The animal is most definitely dying; what do you do?:

A) Continue on with your friends as they flee the scene unsure of what to do, most likely afraid of the consequences of the actions that they have been a part of...

B) Stare at the dying animal and wait for it to die (possibly taking time to record or take pictures of it happening)...

C) Kill the animal quickly, feeling that it's best to end it's suffering instead of letting it die slowly...

D) Something else that I haven't mentioned here...

Choose wisely.

 

[delet]

Why the hell am I so facinated by a beaver? That makes no sense... I don't think I'd ever be friends with people like the ones you mentioned, either.

OT: Eh... I make the douche friend who threw the rock kill it; I don't want to hurt an animal.

 

[skitzo van]

Well, euthanasia it is

 

[viranimus]

Would have been better as a poll.

Given the conditions I would have to go the route of C. If the animal is going to die why on earth would you allow it to suffer? Put the thing out of its misery.

Now I have on many occasions on this forum have openly admitted to being an evil prick. But that is one thing I can not tolerate seeing is animal cruelty. I would do the right thing and put the animal out of its misery, and after I was done with that, I would make sure to inflict nearly equal levels of misery on the "friend" who did it in the first place.

Thats the price of sentience. If an animal kills a person there was a natural reason for it, be it defense, food, instinct, fear, ect. There is no good reason to harm an animal unless you intend to use it. Humans for some reason have the ability to hurt things that had no reason to be hurt, simply because they wanted to see what it would do, or they thought it would be cool. No animal thought to itself "hey! I think im going to go maul that teenager over there.. dOOd it will be all like OWWW, and then AHHHG! then like Splurt.. itll be awesome!"