... and things + Kitty diary: December 2006

Sunday, December 31, 2006

Saddam Hussein

... is dead.

Angela Merkel indirectly criticizes the execution: We respect the judgment, but it is well-known that the federal government is against capital punishment. I wish the Iraqi people a path in peace without violence.

A Mr Ronald Balter on NYT's comment section: Saddam was convicted of executing people who tried to violently overthrow his government. I believe the penalty under American Law for violently trying to overthrow the government is also death. So Saddam was basically executed for doing what the American government would do in a similar circumstance, because he denied the revolutionaries Due Process.

David Elliot of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty called the execution pictures "ghoulish" and said in a phone interview that they are "more determined than ever to abolish the death penalty. It's not a question of whether it will happen, it's a question of when."

Amnesty International called the trail a fundamentally flawed process: Political interference undermined the independence and impartiality of the court, causing the first presiding judge to resign and blocking the appointment of another, and the court failed to take adequate measures to ensure the protection of witnesses and defence lawyers.

Sunday, December 24, 2006

吃狗有甚麼問題？

難道因為『狗會…對人搖尾乞憐』所以就不應該吃嗎？因禽流感而死的雞鴨就沒有心靈？

試想想以下兩種情況

在工廠中，在動物出生後被困在細小的空間無法轉身。為求保証產量，餵食不明來歷的死屍和特別飼料使其快速生長或不停生蛋、產奶。被運到屠場的路上可能沒有食物食水。
動物在人類的住家中每天自由生活。食物是"human grade"的肉類和菜。就地屠宰。

前者是味美多汁的美國牛扒、肉雞。後者是『散養』家禽及案中黃狗。

一邊切牛扒，一邊說吃狗是錯事，明顯是雙重標準。

我明白很多人家中有狗所以不喜聽見狗被吃掉，但沒有道德據的主觀情感，應被立成法律嗎？將動物浸死可能不人道，但跟動物是狗是牛是羊並沒有關連。將謂語放到標題並過份放大就跟在英國大肆報道的妓女殺手一樣，是將重點放到錯誤的地方。

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也可以看miumiu的吃狗的人