Is it time to bring back lobotomies?

[PopeBeanieModerator]

Unseen wrote:

I think the Pope is being a little theatrically dense.

LOL, then you don’t know me well enough. Sometimes, as in this case, I’m just dense, and it was a sincere question. I suppose I was also too lazy to re-read previous posts to analyze the fuller context.

Anyway thanks for your clarification and/or support for RichRaelian in spite of the dramatic accusation. It’s all good in the end.

[PopeBeanieModerator]

Unseen wrote:

We say, for example, that this or that species “doesn’t belong here” that they “belong in Asia (Europe, Africa, etc.).” But every species belongs where it can make a home for itself.

Unseen wrote:

@All Let’s get back to how to deal with incipient super killers.

Drat! I had a response to something you just posted here.

[_Robert_Participant]

If people had to simply pass a course and obtain a license to prove they are capable of owning and humanly caring for a particular pet species/breed, that would go a long way to prevent the horror show.

[_Robert_Participant]

_Robert_ wrote:

If people had to simply pass a course and obtain a license to prove they are capable of owning and humanly caring for a particular pet species/breed, that would go a long way to prevent the horror show.

OFF TOPIC: Same goes for guns, training course and license to own coupled with a psychological profile. Fingerprint activated safety. Problem solved. More good guys with guns, less bad guys with guns, 2nd amendment intact.

[UnseenParticipant]

_Robert_ wrote:

If people had to simply pass a course and obtain a license to prove they are capable of owning and humanly caring for a particular pet species/breed, that would go a long way to prevent the horror show.

Here, here!!!

[DavisModerator]

It makes no sense to have no regulations. We don’t want 5 years olds driving cars, companies able to add highly carcinogenic ingredients to food and we would prefer that only one radio station broadcasts on each particular frequency.

It makes no sense to overregulate, for example having a government installed camera in our car that monitors how often we check our blind spot, completely banning over sugary breakfast cereals and only allowing medicines to be approved if they are completely safe for absolutely everyone.

Something in between is the ideal and you have to keep in mind the efficacy of these regulations, cost, etc. Regulating guns is a total no brainer, especially if you have no problem with regulating far less dangerous things. Something so potentially dangerous should be heavily regulated. That is not the same as banning it.

As for pets, if there was an effective, cheap and easy way to license pet owners, I’d be for it but I’m sceptical that this would be possible now. I am not a fan of abusive pet owners, having said that, some governments are poor at even ensuring parents aren’t neglecting their children. If it could be easily, effectively and efficiently implements, I don’t see why we wouldn’t license pet owners. The number of abandoned pets for superficial reasons points to a non-insignificant people who shouldn’t own them.

[jakelafortParticipant]

I despise abuse of pets. And don’t get me started on treatment of livestock! Not sure licensing pet owners is a good idea seeing how many are in shelters and in need of homes. Putting extra onus on prospective owners/keepers might dissuade some and result in greater numbers of pets being destroyed.

If you want to bring up the purple Tyrannosaurus of licensing omissions it is the president. In USA we have licensing requirements for cutting hair and other comparitively insignificant professions. Yet the most powerful and influential one you can be an absolute petty, unjust psychopathic moron and those may be attributes in electability. How much damage can a president do? You name it. No licensing requirement. If the USA had that requirement and custom the masses would look at nations without such as shithole or regressive. it is just like pot. When it was a war on drugs and there was all kinds of government propaganda it was a drug policy that was largely supported. Now things have changed and the mindless masses have too.

[_Robert_Participant]

Requiring an earned license for pets would at least quell the impulsive buyer who wants a pet on Sunday and wants it gone on Wednesday. Every Easter, thousands of bunny rabbits are sold to nitwits who have no idea how to handle or deal with them and then by Mother’s Day they are dead or abandoned. I wonder what percentage of the US’s societal and political ills are simply the result of short-term-thinking. Yeah, dogs bark and chew shoes, cat’s shred the couch, gee who knew?

 

[jakelafortParticipant]

And beyond the nitwits there is the issue of designer pets. It is artificial selection catering to aesthetic wants and animals suffer as a result.

[_Robert_Participant]

jakelafort wrote:

And beyond the nitwits there is the issue of designer pets. It is artificial selection catering to aesthetic wants and animals suffer as a result.

Yeah, especially against selective breeding of killer/fighting dogs. And of course, stupid people gravitate towards them and then are so shocked when they maul their grandbabies.

[UnseenParticipant]

I’m against perpetuating the fighting breeds and for breeding excessive aggressiveness out of all breeds to make them better pets, but especially putbulls and pit “types,” presa canarios, dogo argentinos, and other guard dog breeds with mastiffoid (molosser) heritages.

I’m also against breeding deformities into cats and dogs such as flat faces (you know what breeds I’m talking about) in cats and dogs. It gives them severe breathing problems. Also, cats with short dachshund-like legs. Some breeds of dog have such narrow hips that their puppies need to be delivered by caesarian section. This includes mastiffs, Scottish terriers, chihuahas, and English and French bulldogs. In a wild setting, a pregnancy could be a death sentence. French bulldogs frequently can’t reproduce naturally, requiring artificial insemination.

People often treat dogs and cats as accessories like the latest running shoes or designer purses.

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Strega and Fellow Unbelievers,

I trust and know that there are many happier mediums between The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We.

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[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Reg,

Here’s the Dr. Demento ditty by Dr. Randy Hazlick a.k.a. Dr. Rock.

Sometimes this quote is attributed to Dorothy Parker, Steve Allen, or The Urban Trubador Tom Waits.

Others have said the medically accurate way to say it is:

“I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me, than to have a pre-frontal lobotomy.”

Either way, both are said to cure–or at least make you forget–“the heartbreak of psoriasis”. (And, Christ! You don’t know the meaning of heartbreak, buddy!) 😎

• This reply was modified 3 weeks, 4 days ago by  TheEncogitationer. Reason: Spelling. Maybe I need a drink or an operation

[TheEncogitationerParticipant]

Robert and Fellow Unbelievers,

One will note the conspicuous lack of firearms involved in the overwhelming bulk of serial murders such as those mentioned here. Once on occasion, yes, but usually their weapons of choice are knives, garottes, blunt instruments, or drugs/poisons.

Also, what you’re calling for with firearms would be no different than calling for licensure of the media, as was done in the days of John Milton and in the Eighties with the U.N. call for licensure of media to suppress exposure and criticism of Third World Dictatorships and their kleptocracy with foreign aid.

If you have to ask “Big Brother May I?” to do something, that something is no longer a right.

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[StregaModerator]

Do you find asking Big Brother for a driving license or to stop DUI drivers from reckless endangerment of others an imposition on your freedom?

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