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Re: Dog in pool incident
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 8 Jul 2001 22:22:39 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Daniel Jassim writes:
> The day I returned, I tracked him down and gave him the beating of a
> lifetime in front of all our friends. They finally intervened to pull me
> away after it was clear that he could no longer defend himself. I reminded
> them they should of been as responsive when he was mistreating my dog. As I
> said, I'm not proud of it but I felt there was no other way properly punish
> him and teach a lesson in respect for animals.
Dan, I'm all for how you handled that. 100%. But don't delude yourself. What
you did settled your internal justicemeter. It tought the thug nothing about
respect for animals. The best it could have possibly done was taught him that
some people value their animals more than he previously would have thought.
But other than that, the most likely outcome is that he would have liked a
chance to get your dog back. I guess he never did.
Chris
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| (...) I'm not deluded about it now. Perhaps I should say that I felt that way AT THE TIME (i.e. I thought I was teaching that jerk a lesson). I realize now as an adult that beating him up didn't somehow convince him to be a better person. More than (...) (23 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Dog in pool incident
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| (...) It happened when I was 16 years old. I was living in Michigan at the time and in the summer I made a trip to visit my family in California. Since my friends helped me get the pool running that summer, my mother agreed to let them swim there (...) (23 years ago, 8-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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