I should clarify. I meant that instead of the government coming and giving us all these laws, we should make up our own definitions for terms? Removing it from the pet category effectively removes it from the "soul", and "has feelings" category in the publics eyes, which would hurt us more than pretty much anything else we could do. The public tends to assume stuff, and put 2 and 2 together to come up with 5, so if we start blurring the line for them, they're going to be the ones to erase it. Picture this: Kid walks up to you while you're holding *insert any reptile*, and says "hey that's a cool pet", but then you say "oh that's not a PET, it's a tool that we use in order to make money, and give ourselves enjoyment." What IS that kid supposed to think? Definately not that it's a nice animal to own, and most likely he's going to think that it must not be "alive" (in the soul and pain way), because you're calling it something we "use", instead of calling it a living, breathing animal. And since we were the ones saying it, they would be more likely to believe it, therefor making us the reason that people start treating them less like animals than they already do.
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-Jacob



Why do people say .02 cents??? So, what, your opinion is only worth a 50th of a cent?

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