^^ Lets not mince words - they broke into someone's property, took the pet, and then killed it.
I wasn't trying to mince words. I just said what their opinion on pets is. What they did on this particular occasion is a whole separate kind of crazy and was basically burglary. I don't even have sympathy on PETA terrorizing scientists who do experiments on animals but attacking a random family just does not make sense.
That's because you're thinking in rational terms, these aren't rational people you're dealing with. They see your pet Dachshund or whatever, and they don't see a pet, they see a slave enduring a fate worse than death. If your pet is of a breed that is dependent on humans for survival, they see that as going against the natural order, and they take pity on the creature in the only way they know how: humanely removing it from the gene pool, leaving only those animals that can survive without us.
Most of their membership are simply normal people fooled into their particular ideology who honestly don't know any better, and don't engage in things like this. However, PETA has a large number of severely psychologically unwell individuals who see themselves as candidates for sainthood, not as genocidal mass murderers.
