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Being a PIG? A succulent Medieval pig?

spoilerActually animals went on trial a lot in Medieval times, particularly pigs, and most often for murder. Domesticated pigs were apparently a lot more aggressive back then and frequently killed people, often children, and they actually put them on trial for this.

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[–] Kuori@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago

wish we'd put our pigs on trial for murder sicko-wistful

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Animal trials are a pretty neat thing that used to be really common. Rats would go on trial for spreading plague, cats would go on trial for being lazy and not controlling the rat population, the idea was that the trial was a necessary part of restoring order to society.

[–] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

It's one of the reasons that trails are incredibly antiquated. Trials were closer to a ritual than an actual practice of justice, just brought over towards being 'scientific' during the Enlightenment.

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[–] Breath_Of_The_Snake@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Edited TLDR: sometimes the human deserved the violence from the member of the other species.

Modern society just uses civil law to coerce the animals owner into killing any animal (treated as property under the law) because of lawsuits. If there was a legit trial with public defenders and whatnot, a lot less innocent dogs would get killed.

Witness: Yes your honor, little jimmy kicked the shit out of a passing by pug who then bit him.

Public defender: as you can see it was self defense the dogs part and there was no crime.

Reasonable jury: little jimmy is a little shit, the dog did nothing wrong.

Without trials it goes like this:

Shitty parent: your dog bit my precious angel! Put it down or I’ll sue.

Not once does whether or not the animal was justified get taken into account.

Ignore the dog brain, but most human with non-human under an humans care interactions that would go to trial apply to dogs. Try hard enough and you’ll find a parallel path for llamas or something.

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

Oh so Trump will pardon Maxwell and Diddy but not Wilbur?

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

clearly its being a working mom, even now during the trial she has to nurse on the stand! such cruelty