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Originally posted by Expat888
Game Over ... Reboot...
Originally posted by pacifier2012
You watch too much TV and movies... but that's ok, the modern world enables us to fantasize more
imagination is more important than knowledge
The animal is exhibiting severe aggression.
Aggression, particularly regularly-occurring, non-provoked aggression, in dogs and cats and even rabbits, horses and livestock animals is a very valid reason for destroying these animals. This aggression may be towards people, other pets in the household or other animals outside of the household (e.g. livestock killers).
Whether an animal needs to be put down after its first act of aggression is debatable and you should discuss the matter with your veterinarian or an animal behaviouralist if it occurs. Some instances of aggression only occur the once because of circumstances occurring at the time and may not require euthanasia (e.g. a dog that has a snap because a person stepped on its tail or kicked it); some forms of aggression are highly situation specific and may not require euthanasia (e.g. if we put down every dog or cat that showed aggression towards vets, there wouldn't be many patients left to treat); some forms of aggression can be easily treated with behavioural modification and training, whereas certain other forms of aggression only get worse with time and do require the pet to be put down (e.g. psychotic, unprovoked aggression due to various brain diseases).
Originally posted by PatrickGarrow17
The animal is exhibiting severe aggression.
Aggression, particularly regularly-occurring, non-provoked aggression, in dogs and cats and even rabbits, horses and livestock animals is a very valid reason for destroying these animals. This aggression may be towards people, other pets in the household or other animals outside of the household (e.g. livestock killers).
Whether an animal needs to be put down after its first act of aggression is debatable and you should discuss the matter with your veterinarian or an animal behaviouralist if it occurs. Some instances of aggression only occur the once because of circumstances occurring at the time and may not require euthanasia (e.g. a dog that has a snap because a person stepped on its tail or kicked it); some forms of aggression are highly situation specific and may not require euthanasia (e.g. if we put down every dog or cat that showed aggression towards vets, there wouldn't be many patients left to treat); some forms of aggression can be easily treated with behavioural modification and training, whereas certain other forms of aggression only get worse with time and do require the pet to be put down (e.g. psychotic, unprovoked aggression due to various brain diseases).
Pet Euthanasia
We kill aggressive dogs all the time.
Now for the happy half of the post,
Originally posted by Expat888
Game Over ... Reboot...
Originally posted by PatrickGarrow17
Of course, people are different than dogs.
If your scenario were the case and technology was inserted into human society by a higher civilization trying to help us develop, they wouldn't allow things to get out of hand. Maybe they were standing by stopping conflict throughout the cold war?
If you're implying that human civilization has failed at this point, I'd disagree. The nuclear holocaust hasn't happened and in many ways things trending in the positive.
Originally posted by youwillneverknow
If we flip it around, lets imagine we are millions of years more advanced than we are now - we find a planet inhabited by early primitive man.
We make contact and, as part of our experiment, we give evolution a little push with some technology to help this planet out. Effectively playing God, we sit back and watch our little experiment develop over the years into a bustling intelligent little planet.
Quite happy with our experiment, occasionally making visits to the planet to see how things are getting on, but now our experiment has got out of hand. Our intentions were never for them to develop deadly weapons nor to begin space exploration programs.
Do we clean up our mess or leave them to it?