HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE!

 

You suggest we like our enemies?

 

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They're not my enemies. Certainly not the entire nation.

We all know that not everyone in Russia was involved in preparing for the Olympics. But the attitude of some of the posts is that there's some common characteristic of the Russian people that led to the problems. That's the hate that I was referring to. It's like having the attitude that all blacks are violent criminals.

 

They only fueled their own stereotype, not my problem.

 

I got 99 problems

and a lympics aint one.

https://twitter.com/SochiProblems

 

Communist spotted.

 

Another reason to hate the Olympics in Russia. Apparently, Sochi had a stray dog problem, so their fix was to go around shooting them in the streets, instead of the humane and sensible thing to do, which is catch them and move them. Luckily a rescue group backed by a billionaire are trying to save as many as they can. Hundreds have claimed to already have been killed.

Rescuers race to save stray dogs at Sochi Olympics » DogHeirs | Where Dogs Are Family « Keywords: Russia, Sochi Olympics, PovoDog, stray dogs

 

As much as I love dogs, I would not be so quick to condemn them for deciding to kill stray dogs. It is easy to complain about the killing of man's best friend, but consider the logistics of what you suggest:

the catching of dogs requires dog catchers to be trained and equipped.

Dogs must then be approached and captured. In my industry, family dog attacks constitutes one of the largest sources of osha recordable injuries. This inclueds taking precautions to avoid dogs and equiping people with 2 cans of dog spray(both cans must be on them at all times). I can only imagine the danger of corner stray dogs into corners to capture them.

Dogs will have to be brought together to collections points. you will be bringing territorial feral dogs in close proximity to one another in a high stress situation. you will need to make some arrangments to make sure that they do not attack and kill each other.

in these collection points, you will have to provide food and medical care to the dogs to prevent the spread of communicable diseases.

Suppose you do catch every single dog in sochi, what do you do with them? drive 100 miles down the road and set them free? keep them locked in cages for the rest of their lives? If you attempt to get some of them adopted, what do you do with the ones that are unsuitable? or that no one adopts?

Frankly even if you were to ignore the cost of such a major dog catching operation, I fail to see how the end result is any more "humane"

 

We should walk around and kill the remaining big cats, rhinos, elephants and giraffe as well.

This is OUR planet. GIT.

 

opening ceremonies:

 

Well, considering the Sochi government is responsible for most of the strays in the first place, since they forced people out of their homes to demolish them and build the Olympic complexes, moving them into small apartment blocks. They had no room for the dogs, so they basically got left behind. So their solution is to just go out and hunt them in the streets. **** taking responsibility and having compassion for animals, just shoot them... right. Good decision. I don't see there ever being a good reason for killing dogs or any animal when there is a non lethal way to move them out of a certain area. That's exactly the kind of thinking that leads humanity to an overall apathetic outlook on many things. I guess we should start hunting homeless people in the streets too. What an inconvenience, not worth the effort to fix the problem correctly.

 

... Oh god. Why? "GIT! GIT!

 

While I understand the humane / compassionate arguments against the mass extermination of the dogs, I can also understand how it is the most practical solution to the problem given the external constraints which apply to this specific situation.

On the plus side, humanitarian conditions in Russia are improving. 60 years ago, they'd have shot the people they forced out of their homes, rather than relocating them into apartment complexes.

 

I can see how it is practical, but practical isn't always the correct approach. Or in this case, practical takes the place of easy/lazy approach. **** all of that work of taking responsibility and collecting the dogs and finding them homes. Just shoot them. Most of them are just family pets that fell victim to relocation of people by their government. I find it pretty pitiful that the best solution they can come up with to fix the problem is to just kill them in the streets. but like you said, at least it was just the dogs shot. They are improving, but still a long way from decency.

 

I notice you made no mention of what your end game is for your master dog saving plan. If you are even able to come up the most utopic "non-lethal" solution, remember that it will be staffed by the laziest and dumbest sector of Suchi working Society: Government workers.

You say that thinking leads to an overall apathetic outlook on many things. I disagree, I think your attitude demonstrates a teenagers level of comprehension of serious problems that is the result of spending too much time on facebook pressing the like button. Beleive it or not, having compassion for animals and shooting them are not mutually exclusive.


your right, we should not shoot homeless people, we should put them in Auschwitz for their own good, becasue we care. (see I can use reductio ad absurdum too)

 

While I do partially agree with this, I think that the Auschwitz example is a bit extreme. For one, the overhead costs (in terms of construction, staffing, etc) would be quite high to replicate that sort of environment. Then, of course, you'd have a bunch of bleeding-heart liberal types complaining about due process and whatnot.

And, of course, it's not actually necessary to execute them all- the problem is sufficiently addressed by simply making them go someplace else outside of the public eye. I'd posit that the British practice of Transportation would be a more palatable solution overall.

 

^This. Communism assigns a very different level of importance to all life, even human life, than most Americans understand. Life is a replaceable commodity that is only useful for its ROI. Pets have no ROI for the government.

 

For extra irony, I probably should have use a gulag as an example. But I seem to remember that in some cases people were released, and thus a **** concentration camp was probably a more accurate example.

In any event, I was going for the overcrowded and filthy image where you enter and never leave. With people dying of starvation an neglect.

The problem with transportation is that in a few generations, you have people like nitrodann soiling up miata turbo forums (j/k buddy <3)

 

Oh, so you've been to the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan.


That's the future's problem.

It's also kind of unfortunate that we are running out of places to stick our undesirable surplus population...