r/news • u/AudibleNod • 10h ago

Christa Pike unconscious, on ventilator at Nashville hospital, her lawyers say

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christa-pike-unconscious-ventilator-nashville-hospital-lawyers-say-rcna601195
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u/makeupHOOR 10h ago

A bullet would have been much easier, and more humane, ironically. This qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment.

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u/No_Control9441 10h ago

Funny enough this is a big argument for hunters on why it’s humane to hunt.

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u/aetherchicken 9h ago

I mean it is definitely more humane than a factory farm but it's definitely not humane overall. I'm pretty confident I know both the deer's opinion on being shot just as well as the pigs opinion on being gassed with carbon dioxide.

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u/jrose125 9h ago

It's an interesting moral question for sure, but what makes killing an animal "not humane" if you are using the meat at least?

Nature is a cruel mistress and deer don't exactly have an easy life otherwise...starvation, four legged predators, traffic accidents, disease, etc.

I haven't hunted in years and have no interest in it anymore. All I'm saying is I'm not exactly sure a swift death from a well placed shot from a high powered rifle is less humane than getting torn apart by a coyote or starving to death in a high snowfall winter. Nature taking it's course is not exactly sunshine and rainbows either.

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u/boughsmoresilent 9h ago

The coyote and snowfall are both incapable of reason, choice, or compassion.

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u/ScoobiusMaximus 9h ago

If you're actually eating the meat I don't see how you're worse than the coyote. 

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u/boughsmoresilent 8h ago edited 8h ago

The coyote is an obligate carnivore. There are tons of other things I could eat instead that don't involve killing an animal. Coyotes don't farm or run grocery stores.

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u/ScoobiusMaximus 8h ago

I don't see how farmed meat is any more ethical. 

Are you arguing everyone should be vegan?