Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?
Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.
We must never relinquish the vision of a humane society and a humane world.
If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants to live at the cost of others.
Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God's creatures should be treated humanely.
One can not be just if one is not humane.
Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.