Cat Microwave Question More Explicitly Stated

[Synur]

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How cute is the cat?

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This made me lol.

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Didn't mean the first question to be ambiguous. And the vast disparity of answers makes me wonder if that would continue if the question was clearer.

An adult, non mentally retarded person is about to gleefully torture and kill a random cat by frying it in a microwave. You can stop it, but if you do, the person somehow loses his hand. How doesn't matter. Would you stop the execution?

I phrase the question this way because I believe I am right at the line for most people. Almost no one would kill any human to save a cat that wasn't their pet. Very few would kill an innocent human, even painlessly, to keep a random cat from dying painfully. Most would not maim even a scoundrel to keep a random cat from dying peacefully.

On the other hand most people would subject themselves or others to moderate discomfort to keep a cat from dying tortuously. And most would subject the actual prospective torturer, to serious discomfort or pain, to stop his deed.

The question I asked is in between those parameters.

PS I don't think it is useful to bring up the fact that the torturer may one day be a neurosurgeon or that he deserves maiming. I'm really only asking what lengths you would go to, to save the cat, if there is a non innocent human hurt in the process.

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WTF?!?

[josh_x]

save the cat.

[Atrophy]

Has the cat been vaccinated?

[Quanah Parker]

As long as the hand or cat is throughly microwaved and then consumed as food it's a wash.

[J_B]

Is this Schrodinger's cat? If so, is the microwave the box? Because that cat is dead already.

Also, it would seem to depend where you live. If I'm in south east Asia, it might be ok to eat a cat where I am at. But, I guess the OP did state that it was purely to torture that cat, so this argument is irrelevent.

[JJNJustin]

I think the correct answer here is to microwave the cat, and then feed it to its executioner.

-J

[nineinchal]

Fried catfish, fried cat, what's the difference?

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I analyse this on 2 levels:

1) Under a pure legal point of view whet he is doing is a criminal act and it has to be stopped,

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Do you just blindly agree with the law because it's "The Law"?

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he therefore has to be selfconscious of the consequences of his actions against the law.

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Why are you making this assumption?

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2)On a more subtle level:I assume that if the guy is doing so he, in a certain way, finds pleasure.
Under these circostances I also assume he will do it again.
This is enough for me to stop him.
I can but I dont assume that this vicious pleasure might escalate to humans.

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So you feel you can justify any action with appropriate assumptions? I assume you will kill three old ladies, this is enough for me to shoot you in the head.

[pvn]

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Is it a house cat or a feral cat?

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I'm curious about this as well. People kill unowned animals for sport every day.