https://cowboystatedaily.com/2024/04/10/public-officials-law-agencies-flooded-with-threats-over-reports-of-wolf-torture/

Sublette County Sheriff K.C. Lehr has received more than 7,000 emails about a Wyoming man who reportedly captured and tormented a wolf before killing it, he told Cowboy State Daily on Wednesday.

Some of those are threats.

Lehr said people in his office, as well as Sublette County and Wyoming Game and Fish Department personnel, have been receiving threats — including death threats — stemming from Daniel, Wyoming, man Cody Roberts’ reported capture, torment and killing of a wild wolf in late February.

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    Unpopular Opinion: I’d like to know what happened to the wolf and how it ended up like this in the first place. If he lasso’d it from 5 meters after it tried to eat his cat and it was released by fish and game after a week, then I cannot be mad about this.

    If he drove 40 miles to get this wolf out of it’s habitat and tape it’s mouth shut then ate it, that’s death threat material.

    EDIT: Yeah he did kill the wolf, clearly unnecessary given it was restrained and injured.

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      He found a wounded animal and ran it over with a snowmobile, taped its mouth shut, paraded it around a bar, then took it behind the bar and tortured and killed it.

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      Bro, what? You’re okay with animal torture?

      We’re talking about torture if an animal doing nothing except what it was born to do.

      Torture of an animal has zero place in normality. Dispatching an animal that threatens your family or pets as a means to protect is one thing, torture is not acceptable under any circumstances.

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        Not this specific cruelty, no. Sherriff was 100% in the wrong from the moment he was driving his snowmobile drunk.

        But I can forgive a seal clubbing if the seal is 500 lbs and attacking a puppy. Context matters, nothing is black and white.

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          There very much are things that are black and white, I think the majority would consider animal torture as black and white.

          If nothing is black and white and context matters, could you please provide your take on when female genital mutilation is sometimes okay? Or when rape or pedophilia are okay in certain circumstances?

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                  You didnt answer the question in the first place. I asked your take on them, instead you provided 2 nouns as a response.

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                    Are you having some kind of dementia episode right now?

                    You asked for examples of context that changes the morality of Pedophilia, to which I responded a Romeo and Juliet Clause: which is an exception to the law which allows someone turning the age of consent to maintain a pre-existing relationship with somebody below the age of consent.

                    You asked for context that changes the morality of female genital mutilation, and I gave an example of the cutting of female genitals as a necessary medical procedure to save lives.

                    Either you’re incredibly stupid or being very ingenuine right now. Not that you’ve participated in any good faith arguments since the beginning.

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      The wolf is a dumb animal. It doesn’t understand ethics or morality or the relationships between a cat and a human. It barely has a sense of interspecies empathy. The human knows better. He knows he’s inflicting suffering for absolutely no reason but spite, and he’s choosing to do that anyway.

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        We’re in this absurd cat hypothetical that I presented as an extreme, so I guarantee you a human being, much less a drunk sheriff, will not react logically and without emotion when something tries to eat their cat. They will act as the animal we all are. The fact that you even proposed that reasoning is asinine.

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      If you’d like to know what happened, I’m sorry, but that’s a well guarded secret. If you don’t know the ancient Egyptian password and can’t break into fort Knox to steal the link to the newspaper article, then there is no way of knowing.