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Posted by Joe Johnson on 19:56:52 05/23/14
In Reply to: Re: Neighborhood cat caught baby bird! posted by kurt d.
A Little John Locke for you:
Sect. 7. And that all men may be restrained from invading others rights, and from doing hurt to one another, and the law of nature be observed, which willeth the peace and preservation of all mankind, the execution of the law of nature is, in that state, put into every man's hands, whereby every one has a right to punish the transgressors of that law to such a degree, as may hinder its violation: for the law of nature would, as all other laws that concern men in this world 'be in vain, if there were no body that in the state of nature had a power to execute that law, and thereby preserve the innocent and restrain offenders. And if any one in the state of nature may punish another for any evil he has done, every one may do so: for in that state of perfect equality, where naturally there is no superiority or jurisdiction of one over another, what any may do in prosecution of that law, every one must needs have a right to do.
We need to do what we must to stop cats from killing birds. Just because someone seems a little extreme or whatever, the cats are a real problem. We need to deal with it; John Locke's arguements seem to say that we need to do what we need to do to punish the evil doers, in this case, cats eating birds right and left.
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