It’s Splinter. All their journalism is lazy and click-baity.

Yep, and immediate gofundme set up, smacks of someone trying to garner sympathy and hide their own mistake. It’s a ploy to gain money, simply that.

Too back the star I gave you because of your pro-domestic violence wording (as long as its girls beating on guys)
You’re disgusting.

Too many kids grew up getting participation trophies and were fine with that.

If they are sentient, have language, tools, an awareness of themselves as living individuals, then they are people and no matter how tasty, their being eaten would be as taboo as cannibalism is for us.

Nope. I will go by the dictionary definitions of the words. A person is a human individual. Simple as that.
No animal, no matter how much intelligence it displays, is a person, an individual. They are at best, necessary parts in the ecosystem and useful to us for that role.
If you were trying to establish that, then I…

Yeah, I’m done talking with you now unless you actually manage to come out with something that contributes to a discussion.

I would say no. An intelligent animal, but nothing more than that.

Really?
A person is a human being regarded as an individual.

You realise that animals are not people ... yeah? I mean, you would have a point if we weren’t talking about the creatures we eat. Are you just not capable of comprehending basic concepts?
Humans, no matter their race, religion, gender, sexuality... are people. Animals are either companions, food or a pest. It’s not…

Of being an individual person... it’s quite clear.

The quality or condition of being an individual person.

Yeah, dolphins are assholes, almost as bad as humans and I really don’t think they give a fuck about the baby porpoises they torment and kill for fun or their own females that they gang rape for females for days.
Can’t really hold them up as a shining example.

No doubt they would look at me as a fine feast to be had. More power to em.

The only real difference between us and animals is that we can write pointless articles pondering whether our food is anything other than a meal.

Animals aren’t people though. At best they are companions or something you see in a field as you pass by, but the reality is, we are not herbivores and so many animals are simply food that requires a little more preparation than a vegetable.

No, and there wasn’t in the UK either, but then neither the people of the UK or Australia fetishize their guns in the way Americans do. Can you really think, those same people who proudly buy guns for their small children and have more weapons than any sane person would ever need, would actually give them up?

Aye, stopping producing anymore would help but then again, people would make their own or criminals would ship them in.
The whole gun fetish Americans have needs to change and that would take a long time while waiting for all those who worship their guns grow old and die off.

Again, the people willing to use them against others wouldn’t register them and your prisons are already so full to overflowing, there’s no room. Not that they seem to be a deterrent anyway.

Even doing that, there are so many guns out there it’s like Pandora’s box. You’re never gonna stuff that shit back in it.
Any significant legislation, forcing people to hand over their weapons, would be a blood bath and at the very best just result in the wrong people having guns, those who would use them on others.