Why is legal to kill a child but not an animal?

Question

Why is legal to kill a child but not an animal?

Answer 1

Uhh, I think you accidentally switched them. But I don't know why its legal.

Answer 2

It is legal to kill an animal, but it is not legal to kill a child.  You have it backwards my friend.

Answer 3

It is legal to end the potential life of a child aka...fetus...but it is illegal to end a child once it is born life....big difference...and you have to have a better argument than that if you want to debate the topic of abortion...it was way weak!

Answer 4

That is a ridiculous question.

Answer 5

Um, it's illegal to kill children and certain kinds of animals.

Answer 6

its not legal. and if you are referring to abortion, a fetus is NOT a child.

Answer 7

It's not legal to kill a child.

Do you mean why is is legal to kill and animal (like hunting) but not a child?

Actually...not the question is twice as disturbing as it was before...

nice...

Answer 8

What planet are you from? It's illegal to do both. As far as an abortion, it isn't a child, it's a fetus. The child becomes one once it's detatched from the mother. Otherwise until then you can't tell a woman what to do with her body.

Let's see you adopt an unwanted child. Unil then stfu

Answer 9

Because  pro-choice advocates think a woman's right to kill her unborn child is more important than that child's life itself.  

Perhaps we have a latent Hindu undercurrent in our culture...and the animals are humans reincarnated ;-)

Answer 10

It is not legal to kill a child.

Answer 11

well you can kill certain kinds of animals and well as long as you dont get caught you can kill whatever animal you want ....not recommended though

Answer 12

A short question with a very long answer.  Blackwater and other mercenary groups can kill children because they operate outside of any national or international laws.  U.S. soldiers can kill children if they can claim and sometimes prove that they didn't know children were present where they were bombing or shooting.  Giant corporations can kill children indirectly through imposition of poverty, drought, famine, genocide, easily preventable disease, etc. because that's the nature of capitalism and such deaths insure that the poor will keep making lots of babies out of fear and continuing to try to keep up with infant mortality rates.  Many animals can be and are killed legally all the time.  Others can be and are killed illegally because the laws aren't strictly enforced.  There are way too many humans on the planet and more all the time.  There are way too few animals on the planet and fewer all the time.  The natural balance of the planet has been thrown completely out of whack by humans over reproduction and lengthening life spans.  Imho, our best chances for survival as a species would be to reproduce allot less and learn allot more about how we can preserve and protect all the other species we haven't yet driven to extinction but I doubt we'll deal with these issues anytime soon.

Answer 13

O, you mean abortion...good point.

Answer 14

WTF are you taking you about, it is not legal to kill a child, now animals, maybe if those animal rights groups would shut the fck up, we might be able to have dinner without any problems

Answer 15

God, people, he was talking about ABORTION! :rolls eyes:

Answer 16

Last time I checked it was not legal to kill a child.  

Answer 17

it's illegal to kill a child. What you're referring to is a FETUS. And it is only legal to kill a fetus in its earliest stages of development. once it is technically a baby you cannot have an abortion. Quit trying to be clever with your pro life viewpoints. Go and vote for mccain, he'll tell you all about it.

Answer 18

Who is saying it is legal????

Answer 19

It's not legal to kill children and it IS legal to kill animals (humanely).

Answer 20

It isn't.  Children have birthdays, and killing them is murder.  It is illegal.  However, sport hunting is a thriving passtime for many Americans.  Killing animals is legal.

Answer 21

i assume it's a typo to and you meant ILlegal to kill a child

and it's because the animals are not recognized as intelligent in government bu governments do protect animals such as it is legal to kill animals when they are in season but if they are not (such as a dog that is never in season) you can be fined or go to jail depending on the situation and animal.

And you can kill an animal if your life is in mortal peril

Answer 22

It's not legal to kill a child.

Answer 23

It is not legal to kill a child.  It is also not always legal to kill an animal, but they are considered property, so you do have that right.

If you are speaking of abortion, a fetus is not a child.

Answer 24

Killing a child is illegal.  Terminating a pregnancy is not.  I did have a

few dogs put down when they got old and no one has come to

arrest me yet.  Get a grip.

Answer 25

Why is it okay to kill children if they are not American?

Answer 26

I'm assuming you are referring to abortion and the argument is whether or not it can be even considered a child at that age?

In my personal opinion I think it is the choice of the woman. It's her body and her mind-set. It may not agree with everyone's morals but it's that persons life. It's their decision to deal with.

EDIT:  People seriously don't get this question. They are being smart about how a foetus is technically a child.

Answer 27

I think you meant illegal. But I dont think that it is right that for a child it would be illegal and for an animal which we all are is legal.

Answer 28

killing a person is murder

killing an animal is dinner

Answer 29

Cause liberals are dim wits.

They also want to make pot legal but banish smoking.

Banish the death penalty but encourage abortions.

Answer 30

Its not legal to kill a child. But is you mean vice versa, its because we need food and clothing and heatsupplies. Which most of we get from animals. Hey, its survival of the fittest bud!!

haha

but I do know its wrong.

You can jooin groups thatare againstthat, some towns dont kill animals at all. just fish for food.  

Answer 31

because we don't need anymore mothers that cannot take care of their children.