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Cyn recieved this from a concerned individual this morning.
> To anyone who feels love and respect for any life form:
>
>
> This is not chain mail. It is a message to make you aware of a horrible
> practice that must be stopped. Please check out the link below and sign the petition:
>
> In New York, there is a Japanese man that sells "bonsai cats". Does it sound nice? Well it is
> NOT! The man puts baby cats in glass bottles and feeds them through a tube.
> Another tube is used to clean up the feces and urine of the cats. In order
> for the baby cats to shape up to the glass bottle, the cats are fed with
> chemicals to soften their bones, as well as to keep them alive as long as
> possible (as long as they can survive that kind of torture). The cat cannot
> move, walk, clean himself... He cannot do anything! This kind of cruelty is
> becoming fashionable in NY, Indonesia and New Zealand. People think is
> fashionable to have a live mascot shaped as a bottle. For more information
> about the kind of torture that cats are being submitted to, just enter this
> site: www.bonsaikitten.com (the images are cruel) This is a petition to send
> to the US Animal Protection Society and to the general
> press, in order to prevent this kind of abuse.
> Please send this e-mail to anyone that loves cats or that
> respects life.
> Just add your name to the end of the list. Use copy/paste to send this as a new
> mail message. If you are the 500th person to sign this petition, please send a
> copy of the message to anacheca@hotmail.com and start a new page for this petition from number 1 again.
> Thank you!
>
> Signatures (Name, City, Country)
> 1.
There were 210 names on the list.
Assuming this torture was real, what the heck was this petition supposed to achieve?
> To anyone who feels love and respect for any life form:
>
>
> This is not chain mail. It is a message to make you aware of a horrible
> practice that must be stopped. Please check out the link below and sign the petition:
>
> In New York, there is a Japanese man that sells "bonsai cats". Does it sound nice? Well it is
> NOT! The man puts baby cats in glass bottles and feeds them through a tube.
> Another tube is used to clean up the feces and urine of the cats. In order
> for the baby cats to shape up to the glass bottle, the cats are fed with
> chemicals to soften their bones, as well as to keep them alive as long as
> possible (as long as they can survive that kind of torture). The cat cannot
> move, walk, clean himself... He cannot do anything! This kind of cruelty is
> becoming fashionable in NY, Indonesia and New Zealand. People think is
> fashionable to have a live mascot shaped as a bottle. For more information
> about the kind of torture that cats are being submitted to, just enter this
> site: www.bonsaikitten.com (the images are cruel) This is a petition to send
> to the US Animal Protection Society and to the general
> press, in order to prevent this kind of abuse.
> Please send this e-mail to anyone that loves cats or that
> respects life.
> Just add your name to the end of the list. Use copy/paste to send this as a new
> mail message. If you are the 500th person to sign this petition, please send a
> copy of the message to anacheca@hotmail.com and start a new page for this petition from number 1 again.
> Thank you!
>
> Signatures (Name, City, Country)
> 1.
There were 210 names on the list.
Assuming this torture was real, what the heck was this petition supposed to achieve?
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Date: 2001-08-23 11:42 am (UTC)From:If it was on the net, why wouldn't the Humane Society release a statement about it if it was real? Just guessing here...
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Date: 2001-08-23 11:47 am (UTC)From:Re:
Date: 2001-08-23 11:54 am (UTC)From:Hey, your Minkey card is the best!!! Minkey brain massage!!! Where do I line up?
(((((((Cyn)))))))
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Date: 2001-08-23 12:06 pm (UTC)From:I thought you deserved one today.
I give my cats those kinds of brain massages and they love it!
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Date: 2001-08-23 12:15 pm (UTC)From:You could start a business!
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Date: 2001-08-23 12:31 pm (UTC)From:There have been quite a few indignant anilal overs get on the "close down the website" bandwagon. even the people who know it is a joke don't think it is funny, and want it shut down because they think it promotes violence to animals.
And yes, the Humane Society is one of them.
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Date: 2001-08-23 12:45 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2001-08-23 01:04 pm (UTC)From:Re:
Date: 2001-08-23 02:01 pm (UTC)From:Ms Eff, who loved your hunter joke from the other day:)
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Date: 2001-08-23 01:26 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2001-08-23 01:29 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2001-08-23 02:14 pm (UTC)From:If someone is hurt as a result of some joke, we would have to attempt the arduous and convoluted task of defining "as a result." It's a huge leap. If a person steals my car and injures somebody with it, to a certain extent that person was hurt "as a result" of me buying the car in the first place, but in no conceivable way would I be held responsible.
Expression is held to its own unique standard, not in a small way based on "sticks and stones... but names will never hurt you." Speech is not a justifiable cause of behavior or action. If 'John' does something because of hearing a joke, or even if someone directly tells him to do it, we can't and shouldn't hold the speaker guilty of John's crime. John has free will, and he has a responsibility to use it. If he is incapable of exercising his will, then, if John isn't set-off by what someone says today, he will be soon enough. A kid who sets fire to his house after watching Beavis and Butthead has serious problems that have nothing to do with the TV show, and would inevitably have done it given any other stimulus. It's an accident and a tragedy, but no matter how desperate we are to find bad guys, to imbue the frightening chaos with comforting notions of cause and effect, we can't blame the speaker.
I agree
Date: 2001-08-23 05:25 pm (UTC)From:To say that the only connected actions are thought and deed seems an oversimplification.
Anyway...
It seems simple to most people that if some guy sees a rape fantasy porn video, and proceeds to kill some girl trying to duplicate it, that the tragedy could have been prevented by banning porn. And that may be true, but the thing that is lost on them is that the guy would eventually do something similar because that's the way he is. He just would have had to think of something on his own.
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Date: 2001-08-23 02:37 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2001-08-23 12:59 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2001-08-23 01:09 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2001-08-23 01:27 pm (UTC)From:I think it is a funny site. The kittens were actually put into the jars for the pictures, but only for acouiple of minutes. That is not a very nice thing to do, but it can hardly be called torture. And there are always those assholes who decide it would be fun to try something like this, even though it is quite obvious to me that it is impossible. I mean, some of the techniques metnitoned there are pure fiction.
I don't think we should, or even can, stop everything in the world that might give someone a bad idea.
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Date: 2001-08-23 01:15 pm (UTC)From:I'm almost certain this email was created as an advertisement by the makers of the site themselves.
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Date: 2001-08-23 01:23 pm (UTC)From: