Thanks to the seemingly non-stop coverage of the Michael Vick case today, I’ve heard several analyst and commentators say “Murdering Animals”.
You can’t murder an animal. People can murder people but we can’t murder animals.
We can execute animals or kill animals, but we can’t murder them.
Murder is reserved for us.
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by personifying animals it makes the act sound even more serious.
thanks for this. drives me crazy.
the other one is referring to a dog’s instinctual pack-animal bonding and “loyalty” as “love”, or even worse, “unconditional love”.
love is human.
i love dogs, but diminishing the uniqueness of humanity is inappropriate and unnecessary in evidencing that love.
Yeah I too hate it when animals murder!
mark on February 1st, 2008 at 8:50 am | Link