Poll: Would you kick a puppy?

[funguy2121]

So there was a topic recently about eating intelligent pigs, and apparently people like the taste of bacon more than they like the idea of not eating rational creatures. This disturbed me a little bit, even if a lot of the replies were probably tongue in cheek.

In response, I'm trying to come up with a situation where people might have their intuitions go the other way about animals. Imagine a cute puppy. If you can't, here's some help.

Spoiler

Would you kick that puppy for $5?

Edit: Some people have asked how hard you have to kick the puppy. You have to kick it hard enough to hurt it significantly, but not hard enough to kill it. You might cause it severe or permanent injury; that uncertainty is part of the problem.

Double edit: Some people have responded that $5 is not a whole lot of money. Let's make it $15. Hopefully that would be enough to make it worth your time, without affecting the moral issue.

Don't you think the "how hard do you have to kick it" questions are more chain yanking?

 

[AvsJoe]

This is the kind of trivial evil that tends to haunt my conscience for years afterward. No, I wouldn't kick the puppy for $15 if I had to kick it hard enough to potentially cause significant injury.

 

[General Vengeance]

I wouldn't kick a puppy, but I would kick a person who posts a poll asking me if I'd kick a puppy.

 

[Eggsnham]

So there was a topic recently about eating intelligent pigs, and apparently people like the taste of bacon more than they like the idea of not eating rational creatures. This disturbed me a little bit, even if a lot of the replies were probably tongue in cheek.

In response, I'm trying to come up with a situation where people might have their intuitions go the other way about animals. Imagine a cute puppy. If you can't, here's some help.

Spoiler

Would you kick that puppy for $5?

Edit: Some people have asked how hard you have to kick the puppy. You have to kick it hard enough to hurt it significantly, but not hard enough to kill it. You might cause it severe or permanent injury; that uncertainty is part of the problem.

Double edit: Some people have responded that $5 is not a whole lot of money. Let's make it $15. Hopefully that would be enough to make it worth your time, without affecting the moral issue.

Your answer, kind sir. Is no.

No I would not kick that puppy.

 

[Peteron]

Last time I checked, puppies do not = bacon. Plus, puppies are adorable, unlike ugly pigs. So no, I would not kick an adorable puppy, nor a pig. However, I would feast on the flesh of the pig.

 

[Nouw]

Even if you added 5 more 0s to that I wouldn't do it.

I'm a Buddhist you see and even if I wasn't (which was quite recent) I wouldn't have done it.

 

[mexicola]

No 15$ is still a trivial amount. But if it was an impressive number I'd do it. I wouldn't feel comfortable but I'd just clench my teeth and get it over with.

 

[Falconsgyre]

I wouldn't kick a puppy, but I would kick a person who posts a poll asking me if I'd kick a puppy.

Hey now. I'm not saying you should kick a puppy.

 

[godofallu]

See I would eat that puppy, if it tasted good and I was hungry.

I wouldn't just kill it and leave the corpse to rot, or kick it to death for no reason.

I would eat a pig if it tasted good and I was hungry.

I wouldn't just kill it and leave the corpse to rot, or kick it to death for no reason.

 

[Falconsgyre]

Last time I checked, puppies do not = bacon. Plus, puppies are adorable, unlike ugly pigs. So no, I would not kick an adorable puppy, nor a pig. However, I would feast on the flesh of the pig.

I've heard dog meat is delicious.

 

[Kaymish]

yeah i would $16 is not a whole load of money but i dont like puppies so yes i would kick it

 

[Peteron]

Last time I checked, puppies do not = bacon. Plus, puppies are adorable, unlike ugly pigs. So no, I would not kick an adorable puppy, nor a pig. However, I would feast on the flesh of the pig.

I've heard dog meat is delicious.

Maybe so, but until it either is bacon or looks like it (and stops being so adorable) I refuse to feast on its flesh.

 

[game-lover]

NO. No way, I couldn't! Just thinking about it crying and lying there whimpering...

I replied to the pig topic and the difference here to me is that we're eating the pigs for nourishment. It's pointless & cruel to kick a puppy for no reason at all.

Besides, $15 is nothing. Not worth it. Not even $100. You'd have to at least hit 4-5 digits for me to even consider doing something like that.

 

[Canid117]

For fifteen dollars? No.

Thats still chump change anyway.

 

[Alaster Angelo]

I hate puppies. I'd gladly do it.

 

[crystalsnow]

Fill it with helium then kick it. Then it's like a bouncy ball.

I wonder how many replies this comment will get.

 

[Gaiseric]

Fill it with helium then kick it. Then it's like a bouncy ball.

I wonder how many replies this comment will get.

At least one.

That would be a funny looking bouncy ball.

 

[ProtonGuy]

I won't kick the puppy, but I'll kick the asshole's who started this in the knees hard enough to break the joint. Then I'd kick their throats and watch them gasp for air through their crushed windpipes.

 

[kouriichi]

Would i kick a puppy for 15 USD?
I guess.... Id be a bit worried about why you asked me to kick a puppy in the first place. ((YOU SICK F*CK))

If nobody but me, you, and the puppy knew that i kicked it, then i guess i would. I see 0 consequence to it, and 15 USD profit in it.

If it were a kitten, i would say, "No". But then i would follow it up with, "Add to zeros to the end of that and i might consider it."

Yes, i know, cold and heartless. But i might be out of a job soon. In this day and age, pity for a lesser creature has its limits. And on a puppy, thats 15 USD.

 

[Dana22]

I dont mind eating any animal, if it was bred solely for that purpose. And no, I wouldn't kick neither puppy nor pig.