What should determine if an animal is “vicious” by law?
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What should determine if an animal is “vicious” by law?
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If they consistently attack humans I guess.
That's a good indicator. Sharks are "vicious" then.
Number of Americans bitten by sharks in 2009: 29. 5 people died around the globe. Total.
Number of people killed by box jellyfish per year: ~100.
I'm tired of your fears overpowering any sense of reason. Dogs attack and kill way more people per year than sharks. So do mosquitoes or poisonous snakes.
People kill more people than anything else per year, with the exception of viral and bacterial infections.
I'm assuming our legal provision for this would be to determine ownership or penalties for ownership on the occasion of an attack. In that regard, I think it best that we should not be allowed to own other people. They are clearly the most "vicious."
Oh a place where I get to disagree with Sun Tzu (rare, so I must savor this.) What you're not looking at here is the cost / benefit analysis. Dogs provide many favorable things for humans. Sharks not so much. Even as a ecosystem stabilizer sharks are not really needed. Kill the sharks.
Sharks also don't exist in the same environment as humans. Ignore the sharks.
I was making the point that the benefit of owning dogs includes costs. Like the probability that it might attack someone. Or be shot by a cop for no reason at all. Things like that. And mostly that humans are far more likely to attack and kill you, even on accident, than any wild animals. You need to get down to microscopic organisms to really have a threat worth worrying about.
Fair enough. Guess I'm just hunkering for an intellectually rigorous debate. but I'm grasping at sharks…
It does have pretty slim pickings here for rigorous debates.
I just write things down and don't worry if I'm using a sledgehammer or not on the opponent. The compulsion to write is far stronger than the need for it to actually convince someone whose mind is made up and won't be swayed by any amount of facts.