Pigs are definitely highly intelligent. As clean, smart, and affectionate as dogs, by all accounts.

Wild animals in the food chain don't have much of a choice as to how they survive. Humans, on the other hand, do. We have reached a point where we no longer need to eat meat, plus it has a ton of other disadvantages (inefficient and expensive use of energy, it's better to get it direct from the plant, hygiene and safety issues, etc.). If we have the option of getting by without having to torture and murder animals, we should take that option if we want to be considered civilized.

Spoken as if it's okay to kill those animals too.

It wasn't so long ago that we cleaned chimneys by sending little boys to climb up and clean them from the inside. It wasn't so long ago that the poor were warehoused in workhouses in horrific conditions. It wasn't so long ago that slavery was widespread and legal in America. We don't do these things anymore because we tend towards building a better society. Our morals evolve.

In one hundred years we'll look back at the practice of eating meat with the same horror that we look upon slavery now.

You are one sick, twisted, psychopathic motherfucker.

For fuck's sake.

Single-use zoning ordinances were a major cause of sprawl. Let's partition everything up into nice neat little parcels that look great on a map. Let's ban the corner store. Let's put all the houses in this zone, all the shops in this zone, all the offices in this zone, and all the industry in this zone. Lo-and-behold, suddenly all of your daily needs are out of walking distance. Suddenly everyone is forced to drive cars just to get through the day. And then they wonder why American cities built in the post-war period have so much traffic.

Go live in Saudi Arabia then. I hear they chop heads off in public. A sick, twisted psycho like you would love it there.

No, capital punishment IS the lynchmob.

No we're not.

Thank you! I've been saying it for years. If we treated rape the same way we treated murder, we'd hire some pervert to rape, on behalf of the state, anyone convicted of rape.

Right. Start a trade war with the European Union over your country's shoddy human rights records. You're a real fucking genius aren't you? You should run for office, you'd probably win a GOP primary easily with that level of stupidity.

Bring back crucifixion then. Go on...

Well then you're a fucking barbarian.

Now you're comparing clerical administrative work and civil engineering to the killing of another human being. Looks my invocation of Godwin's Law was entirely appropriate.

Would you fucking dickheads get it into your thick skulls that climate and weather are not the same thing? Jesus H Christ! I learned this in high school geography class when I was 11 years old! What's taking you so long, you knuckle-dragging idiot?

Okay then. How about industrial-scale gas chambers with a railway line going in the front and a crematorium out the back? To ease the minds of the convicts you could just lie to them and tell them it's a work camp, and put a sign on the gate saying "work sets you free." Better build that chimney pretty high though. The locals are sure to complain about the smell of burning human flesh.

Seriously though, do you people ever listen to yourselves?