when you stop to think what they were doing to their own human citizens at the time, I suppose killing off dogs by suffocation could almost be seen as kind ...Good point
*, Capfka.
The same comparison could be made between the gulags in Siberia and the "ethnic cleansing" in West Darfur today.
The only difference is that today we know what is going on and we have the means to stop it, and we look the other way.
Perhaps if it was happening in outer space, we would take more interest in these preventable atrocities.
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2004/sudan0504/6.htm#_Toc71531703* Subject to this caveat, Capfka. It can never be "seen as kind" or "almost kind" to cause suffering to any sentient life, whether a dog or a human. But sometimes such measures can and must be tolerated when they are undertaken for therapeutic reasons, or, in the case of animal research, to advance human civilization or human health.
I hope you will understand any suffering I may have caused you personally, or anyone else on this Board, in that light, Capfka.
