cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/7071122
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/533670
The owners of the store at Tipton Gas Bar in Lake Cowichan, B.C., were baffled when a black bear walked in and stole a bag of gummy bears.
Didn’t “euthanasia” apply to “individuals getting help to fulfill their death wish”? I don’t think the bear wants to die, if anything it will get murdered, as in “premeditated taking of a life, against the target’s wishes”.
You don’t take on a pack of wild gummy bears and come out alive. That bear had a death wish, sure as shootin.
How do you know the bear’s wishes? Did you ask him?
Suicide by
copvet, you say? That bear needs counseling!No?
“Humanely” implies a reason that isn’t just because it behaved not how you wanted it. That’s called “sacrificing” or at best “killing”, like when you want to eat steak but the cow insists on breathing.
I don’t want the bear to die. But that doesn’t change that the word doesn’t imply consent.
The word literally means “good death”, meaning for a good reason. Consent is one such reason, terminal illness is another, stealing gummy bears… is not.