Lord Flame Stryke wrote:
> Dafydd Edward Dragon <"dafydd[erasethisbit]dragon"@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
> news:sT5Pj.80387$rd2.10951@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>> 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.
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>
>
> Lord Flame Stryke
>
Ah, okay then. Well that makes me feel a heck of a lot better.
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