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>But I understand that we need to put down dogs in animal shelters without calling it a mass murder. If you're totally fine with it, why not just say "kill" in
by dTal 6y ago
>But I understand that we need to put down dogs in animal shelters without calling it a mass murder.
If you're totally fine with it, why not just say "kill" instead of the soothing euphemism?
- i_cannot_hack 6y agoMaybe because it's the most commonly used terminology in this context? Trying to attribute some hidden opinion to the author's use of a contextually common synonym (instead of the one you would prefer) seems a bit weird to me.
- vianneychevalie 6y agoEnglish is not my first language, sorry. You're completely right.
- celticninja 6y agoBecause when my dog is old and he is in pain and it won't get any better, I want to gently, let him go, to put him down/to rest. I don't want to 'kill' him. That's what the police would do to someone's innocent dog. Words have emotional connotations.
- tripzilch 6y agoWhich absolutely has nothing to do with "animal pain and animal exploitation", which the GP believes is acceptable, and was using the killing of their dog, somehow as .. I'm not sure how their argument works, because obviously the way we exploit animals is nothing like the way we would gently send a puppy to their final resting place in puppy heaven.
- LetThereBeNick 6y ago“Euthanize” implies an often tough decision to end a condition of prolonged suffering that has little hope for improvement. “Kill” does not imply any such decision