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Originally Posted by The_Jazz
CptAJ - maybe Venezualan society doesn't frown on animal fights, but American society does. To the best of my knowledge, all 50 states ban the practice. There are illegal fights here and there, but I don't think that "general" American society finds it acceptable at all. I think that the distinction is important.
Bestiality, however, is not necessarily illegal everywhere in the US, but I believe that it is in the majority of states. The alcohol/cannabis comparison is a strawman since we're talking about third party injuries here, with the third party being an animal. A better analogy is the one already drawn with adults who can't consent because they aren't concious or lack the mental capcity to do so.
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I was referring to animal-dependent sports in general, not fighting in particular. I'm sorry, I should have made that more clear. And yes, its illegal here too, although barely enforced like many things. I already mentioned the matter of lesions to the animal in the previous posts. The sexual act would not generate these lesions as long as the animal is big enough, so the animal fights comparison is not exactly fair. But even still, horse racing submits the animal to more lesions and pain than any sexual act would.
The alcohol/cannabis comparison was directed at the
unfounded legality of both matters (even though bestiality is not legislated against in some places), which is at this point the only thing I'm arguing here I guess. I think you misunderstood what I was trying to convey... And I already explained that the line is drawn way before we ever reach natural humans, no matter how defective they are. So mentally challenged folk would be considered human, and rightly so.
Sorry for the misunderstandings, I'll try to explain myself better in the future.
PS: I too had expected to hear amusing tales of inter-species sex. I thought "damn, this place is way more open minded than I thought".