The hell...why are people even supporting this?
'It was going to be euthanised anyway'
Fine. Let the vets euthanise it. They'll at least do it cleanly.
They did it cleanly too, with a single rifle bullet. That's really not uncommon in rural areas. A vet wasn't needed.
'It was dead, what's the problem?'
It's dead, yes, but it's still a thirty-two year old animal, that would have meant a lot to people. What if you looked after that horse for most, if not all, of your life, and sell it to some young couple who naturally wouldn't have told you exactly why they wanted it. Then they shoot it and take pictures, naked, inside your companion? You're telling me that THAT isn't wrong?
Of course its wrong... morally. Morality however, doesn't come into laws for a damn good reason, that reason being subjectivity.
'They killed it humanely, it's not abuse'
Right. There are a thousand things wrong with this. Killing an animal so you may pose inside it is NOT humane. The method may have been, but it's still fucking murder. Yes. I eat meat. I understand that the animals killed for meat aren't always killed in the most humane of ways...but I'm not here to debate that. The point is this. Killing an animal for food is fine, because you intend to fucking eat it. It is NOT morally justifiable to kill animals just because you did it humanely. To justify it in that way is bordering on psychopathy.
Yeah, they actually killed it so they could eat it. They posed with the parts that they weren't eating. That was actually stated in the article "Lottin reportedly told investigators that they wanted to humanely kill the horse and eat it ? and she wanted to feel what it would be like to be inside the dead horse.".
'Han Solo did it in Star Wars, nobody cared then'
That was because Luke would have frozen to death otherwise...I'm not sure how you can use this as an argument.
Yeah, I thought that argument was a bit odd too. I'm just gonna assume most of them are joking