Dafydd Edward Dragon <"dafydd[erasethisbit]dragon"@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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>> No, it wouldn't be slavery. If you had a cat, would you let it run
>> away, or would you do the best you could to ensure it would stay?
>> Would you keep it indoors all the time? Or would you build a fence
>> for it so it wouldn't run away on you? If it's just a pet, then it's
>> not slavery, it's caring for your pet. If it was intelligent enough
>> to understand what I want of it (ie, to not run away, to not attack
>> people, etc, etc) then I wouldn't have a problem with it having
>> non-working wings.
>> But myself, I'm bipedal, and I have wings. So I think that would be
>> a nice thing.
>>> And if it is your pet then it must is less intelligent than you.
>>> How intelligent will it be? Is slavery a bad thing for it?
>>
>> No, if it's a pet it doesn't have to be less intelligent than you. I
>> know lots of people whose pets are much smarter than they are. In
>> fact, they're not smart enough to know that they're not smart enough
>> to own a pet in the first place.....
>>
>>
>>
>> Lord Flame Stryke
>>
>
> Quote: "If it was intelligent enough to understand what I want of it
> (ie, to not run away, to not attack people, etc, etc) then I wouldn't
> have a problem with it having non-working wings."
> You just contradicted yourself LFS, You just said you'd want it to be
> very intelligent, thus intelligent to not run away if it's being well
> cared for because it'd be smart enough, yet you want to trap it
> anyways. That makes no sense. If it's capable of equal mentality, it's
> considered adopted, NOT a pet, meaning having equal rights including
> the right to choose wither or not it wants to stay with you. If it's
> smart enough to be an equal, it shouldn't have it's wings disabled,
> that's considered cruelty. There is no valid reason for doing so.
Typo on my part. The "non-" shouldn't have been typed. I was referring
to my previous post, where I expressed a desire for non-working wings
for such a creature as was shown in the image.
Lord Flame Stryke
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