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California To Create Public Animal Abuser Registry
An anonymous reader writes "California legislators are moving forward with plans to create a public, online, animal abuser registry identical in function to the public sex offender registry. Is this the slippery slope to further government mandated lists and registries?"
I'd like to see you try tell a Liger twice...
To do something right, you often have to roll up your sleeves and get busy.
Maybe, but if so we certainly could also consider adding some of those PETA loonies.
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Apparently you have not paid any attention on how actual farming is implemented recently.
It's not quite the land of sunshine that is painted on the tele.
No, I'm afraid farming today is fairly beyond the concept of humane.
The title means "miserable ones" It's about a guy that was in jail, served his time and had to carry a document identifying him as a former criminal. Then pretty much everyone in society that knew he was a former criminal because of that identification made his life outside of prison a living hell. There is a lot more to it that comes later but that is the gist of the beginning.
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Peta volunteers have killed animals in their vans just after pickup, they often make no attempt to rehome animals.
Ok, great reason to create a registry of Bedwetters also, then (however).
Whenever you move into a new house, you will be required to inform all your new neighbors that you were a persistent bedwetter past the age of 5.
Since all past bedwetters are dangerous and cannot be trusted. It is a behavior that once practiced may never leave the person. They may suppress it for the rest of their lives, but underneath the potential is there especially given a one in a million encounter.
From Wikipedia: "The triad links animal cruelty, obsession with fire setting, and persistent bedwetting past the age of five to violent behaviors; particularly homicidal behavior"
Consider that under some interpretations, failing to license your pet is "abuse"... there have already been confiscations citing a few fleas as "abuse"... In San Francisco, failing to provide "quality food" (which is not defined by their new law) is "abuse"... the ways an ordinary pet owner could find themselves on this list is endless, everyone can play!
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If they didn't violate the trust of people who send animals to them, thinking that it'll be good for the animal... I might agree.
Don't give an unwanted animal to PETA. Give them to the Humane Society. They'll try. They spend money on actual animals, instead of just obnoxious advertising campaigns and donations to terrorist groups who firebomb research labs and the like.
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Or, of course, you could just throw out the crude attempt to classify people based on their crimes, and classify based on psychological evaluation. What you really want is a list of sociopaths, whether they be the blue collar flavor who flip out and kill somebody, or the white collar flavor who can keep their inhumanity in check long enough to make it through business school and do some real damage...
You should read David Brin's book Sundiver. It is set in a society that has this system. His portrayal of it seems reasonable (although "seems reasonable" and "is correct" are two very different beasts, I know), and is definitely not something I want to live in the middle of. I'd vote against this proposal.
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