Paris: Animal rights activists seize puppy from homeless man

[DavidB.]

The animal rights organization says that the homeless man, who is supposedly Romani, had drugged the dog in order to keep it calm, and that's why they took it away from him. Not sure whether to believe this story, since there is zero evidence for it, but it could be true, because people generally like to ignore homeless people yet they will approach a cute dog and possibly give money to its owner - sad, but that is how the world works. Nonetheless, even if it is true, that doesn't give this organization the right to take away the dog from the homeless man.

Did the homeless man get his puppy back?

Nope, doesn't seem to be the case.

[DavidB.]

Is it possible this dog will end up with a better life than if it were on the street? Probably. But that wasn't that fringe group's right to decide.

I actually consider it quite likely that the dog was drugged, because I don't really see why an animal rights group would otherwise take some random homeless guy's dog - I don't buy the "they did it because he was homeless" story. It is simply true that there is an industry for cute puppies, which are drugged by homeless people, and which are then drowned by the homeless person when they grow up (=less cute) - the homeless person "adopting" a new puppy in order to beg for money. And it is also sadly true that this custom seems to be more common among Romani beggars, which makes his ethnicity relevant to the story.

Nonetheless, the part of your text that I quoted is basically essence of the story, and you're totally right about that. The animal rights group was wrong. If they thought the dog was drugged, then they should have called the police.

[DavidB.]

Religions created plenty of bad moral codes. It's the same for vegetarianism. It's a misguided moral code, guided by an higher concern for animal life than human life, which isn't acceptable for a well-balanced human.

How so? One can perfectly well be a "well-balanced human" without eating meat. Vegetarians aren't starving and many have found other ways to have healthy nutrition.

[DavidB.]

Such "moral" overthinking is what led to oppression of women during millenia and oppression of gays

No, quite the opposite: a lack of thinking in terms of morality (as opposed to convenience) led to the oppression of women and gay people.

[DavidB.]

This thread:

I love you (no homo), but these kind of posts are probably the reason why people open threads named "Let's talk about darthebearnc".