It's one thing saying that if there is a truly violent dog that can't have it's disposition changed, then put it down. It's an entirely different point killing millions of animals because of the few, where it's either poorly raised and not properly controlled animals, or poorly raised child provocation of these animals or normal ones, and in most cases the only lviing thing that dies in these cases is the dog. Fatalaties are extremely rare, and the media blew about 1-2 cases up and caused the governemnt to do this.
So I mostly disagree with you, Salamander.
However, you made a ponit of not treating all animals quite the same. There is some logic to that, perhaps woddworms destroying a house, but I don't pointlessly kill beetles, cockroaches or ants or anything for fun like some sadists who do think it is in fact amusing.
Unprovoked dog attacks are 1 in 9,999,999,999,999. Well, not literally, but so ridiculously extremely rare that it's not worth any killing because of this. Usually, also, poorly trained or kept dog attacks are often classified as 'unprovoked' too, when it partially is, but the owner should take proper care of the dog.
Humans are the biggest threat to humans and the entire planet. Climate change, habitat destruction, extinction, murder, rape, poverty...all easily preventable and fixable (yes, even poverty. In 3rd world countries. They're only poor because of the UK, America and the likes anyway), but not. And all caused by, guess who? Humans. How unsurprising. We should all just stop breeding and die out. The world would be a much better place, then. But Humans aren't punished or killed for their actions nearly as severly as something like a dog, when they try their best to protect us. They earned the title "Man's Best Friend" for a reason. It wasn't made up.
I think this should be the case on this subject, perhaps: Allow current owners of Pit Bulls to keep them just as they were, but any future owners need a licence. No killing, but still licences and such involved. I see that as a win-win situation. However, it 'aint going to happen, because our government does not in fact listen to us. How many wars have been stopped by public protest? Zero. Iraq was (and still is) a pile of BS. There was another war (I don't recall where) where public, peaceful protesters were attacked by police. So much for our government. I'm surprised it hasn't all been overthrown yet, because it's not ruddy doing the job it should be doing, and it's not doing the purpose of why the government was first set up in the first place.
Humanity phails, pretty much. Well, government phails then. The t*ats. We mistreat everything, terribly. It could be so easy for us to sort everything out, but it'll never happen.
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