The dogs thought the owners were being threatened and yet is wrong that they were attacking to defend the owners?
Dog Attack on Illegal Immigrant Ignites Immigration Debate In N.J. Town
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The dogs thought the owners were being threatened and yet is wrong that they were attacking to defend the owners?
Its not wrong for them to attack, but its also not wrong for the people to defend themselves.
So should the dog be killed?
They were told not to go back there and they did. They were at fault.
yet they still have the right to defend themselves from injury or death.
Alright, similar hypothetical:
An intruder (not Scott) breaks into my home. Under Florida's "Castle" law, if I feel threatened, I'm allowed to shoot him. I draw my weapon. He shoots me.
Is that self-defense on his part? I say no, because he was breaking the law just by being where he was.
The family told them not to go back there. That means they were trespassing. That's illegal.
Their "defending" involved a seemingly threatening action towards the homeowners.
The actions they took (grabbing the woman), to a dog, would be considered threatening. Especially if they were trained to protect their owners.
And you're missing the point that they were on the property (and the country for that matter) illegally.
Okay, By that logic I can scale the fence of my local junk yard or used car parts lot and when the watch dog there attacks me I can sue the owner of the lot for a monetary award.
That logic doesn't work at all... when you scale the fence you are breaking and entering. These guys were expected by the homeowners to work on their property.
I haven't seen it in any of the article here, but do you realize that the owner told them to wait until he put the dogs away before they came into the yard to work, then he went and took a shower BEFORE he was going to bring the dogs in. It was almost 15 minutes after he told them to wait until he put the dogs inside before they entered the back yard and got attacked.
Any reasonable person would think that within that 15 minutes that the dogs would have been put inside. They didn't know that he was going to take a freaking shower first... The owner was negligent...
It doesn't matter if these workers were undocumented or not. A human life ALWAYS comes before an animals life. ALWAYS! And if this isn't something we can agree on, than there is a much bigger problem than a few dog bites.
You're correct. I hadn't read a thing about the owner taking a shower in the mean time. With that important bit of info it becomes clear that the owner was negligent.
The reports I read were worded to make it seem as if the yard workers either didn't understand that they were to wait, (language barrier) or entered the back area before the owner could reasonably get the dogs secured.
I'll chalk those reports up to more Media hype over the illegal immigrant debate.
The reports I read were worded to make it seem as if the yard workers either didn't understand that they were to wait, (language barrier) or entered the back area before the owner could reasonably get the dogs secured.
I'll chalk those reports up to more Media hype over the illegal immigrant debate.
I saw this worker on TV being interviewed and his English seemed perfectly coherent to me... :dunno