06-12-2018, 08:55 PM
The trolling mockery waged against our own community members whom are suffering gets very tiresome very fast. Cruel-heartedness never ceases to disgust infuriate me, but I need to maintain a strong focus on Saturnine here and the topic of the original post.
There are situations where ongoing life has too much pain and misery, and a peaceful, comfortable death is more merciful and graceful when all other options have been exhausted. "True" zoophiles will face this time and time again .... whether a horse or dog or other subject of our affection, we will survive a series of "to death do we part" fulfillments. I have spent a lot of time and thought trying to justify the cultural norm of distinguishing the values or rights of non-human animal rights versus human rights, but I have found none. Every zoophile I know that has been around long enough to have to make that choice to end the life of a beloved beast because time, affliction or injury condemns the remainder of days to be filled with pain and suffering.
Whether human or animal, I do believe a right to live is essential, but above it is a right to live comfortably and free of pain, and where the two conflict, one should have the right to end one's life -- but only after all other options to fix the issue that would allow one to live without pain have been attempted.