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"Is it okay to kick a cat?"

Is it?

Memorandum! wrote:
> And we shall assume that there is no-one around to see me kick it,
> and therefore no evidence for prosecution and it will not cause
> distress to anyone who witnesses it.

Well then ... as I said ... absolutely nothing is stopping you.
If you want to kick the cat, you kick the cat.

You'll weigh up the gains and losses before sticking the boot in -

On the plus side, you want to, it'll look amazing, you've always wanted to, and you just can

On the minus side is your conscience.

Depending on which weighs the heaviest results in action.

I think the main question here is how your conscience in this situation is constructed. If you had never been told otherwise ... you'd probably kick the cat. If society hadn't pressed certain ethics onto you ... you'd probably kick the cat.

I'd suggest that your conscience isn't actually what most people think - it is, in fact, the representation of society within you. There's nothing personal about it - hence why Catholic people will have more on their consciences, because society has told them many more things are unnacceptable and must be repented against.

As such, you are free to ignore it - as long as the battle with society itself (an internal battle, if there are no witnesses, but the same battle nonetheless) can be ignored, over-ruled or destroyed.

What would the probability that the cat would be dead? Is it right to kick a dead cat anyway?

I'm sure the subtelty is lost on you, but this is in the PHILOSOPHY section.
hence it is a PHILOSOPHICAL question.
I don't think I've seen a single intelligent reply from you.

And to answer your question, shut up.

Ineedsleep wrote:
> Surely this is all irrelevant now. I cannot believe the cat is STILL
> sat there so the chance has surely passed you by.

It could be dead.

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Surely this is all irrelevant now. I cannot believe the cat is STILL sat there so the chance has surely passed you by.

Cycloon wrote:
> Idiots. Stop trying to be clever. It's wrong to kick a cat in terms of
> morals. You are deliberatly causing a living creature pain, for no
> just reason - nihilism, pleasure, whatever. In terms of societie's
> dominant ethics, that is wrong. That is the clearest way to define
> right and wrong.
>
> And don't pretend you're going to go into a deep philosophical debate
> about good and evil, because you won't.

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Chr1s wrote:
> Grix Thraves wrote:
> "Because it's wrong!"
>
> "Why?"
>
> "Because... because it's wrong!"
>
> It really is that simple.


hahahahaha

ok then, let's copy Grix's thread more:

WHY is it wrong?

Chr1s wrote:

> It's my cat. I paid for it. I have the right to protect it. I didn't
> know what that kid was going to do next. For all I knew he was gonna
> eat it.

Surely if you value a cats wellbeing so much then you would despise those who buy the lifes of them?

Chr1s wrote:
> But why were you upset at him for chasing your cat?
> It's my cat. I paid for it. I have the right to protect it. I didn't
> know what that kid was going to do next. For all I knew he was gonna
> eat it.

I eat cats, whats wrong with that?