Here’s a bit of interesting news:
LONDON (Reuters) - A British bus company has apologized to a girl who is led around on a leash by her boyfriend and describes herself as a human pet after one of its drivers threw her off a bus.
Tasha Maltby, 19, told British newspapers she was the “pet” of her 25-year-old fiance Dani Graves.
Pictures showed her dressed in black Gothic-style clothing with silver buckles on a silver chain — which the driver of a bus from the firm Arriva took exception to.
She told the Daily Mail newspaper Wednesday she was thrown off and told: “We don’t let freaks and dogs like you on.”
Now that in certain parts of the world there are laws protecting the rights of LGTB communities, and more are struggling to be added to the list (think zoophiles, perhaps even people who are into BDSM), where should the law draw the line?
Who gets to decide what is acceptable and what is not? Obviously, law-making has many variables; lobbying, sentiments of people at the time, etc. What was once taboo is now legal because of this, and viceversa. Perhaps by this logic we can say that right and wrong are also variables. They change.
So where do you think the law should draw the line? Should people on leashes be allowed on buses? Should people-animal lovers be allowed to dine in the same restaurants as the rest of the normal “us”? Gay people are already allowed most of the freedoms we enjoy, so why not these other communities?
What do you think?
Tololy it’s not the same thing. Restaurants and buses can allow "human pet lovers" as you put it or any other weirdos inside, provided they don’t practice these things within the bus or restaturant. So I’m with the bus driver.<br />
Tololy;
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Don’t any one of the normal “us” get sick if he sees a “MAN” acting like a pet for his lover?! Shouldn’t he get upset and furious if any “gay” or “people-animal” couple is in action in front of his Childs Eyes?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Freedom for those people for doing whatever they want is totally different subject from forcing the normal “us” and/or our Childs to the “intercourse” with them and accepting the un-inherent un-humanitarian behaviors of them.</p>
mmm kinky :D
im 100% with Abdullah.
you are taking a story from a different culture that describes a life style and then contrasting it with the moral code of a totally different audience and culture all the while, tongue in cheek, saying that "Perhaps by this logic we can say that right and wrong are also variables". that is taking the illogical position that moral relativism is in doubt and that moral universalism does apply to lifestyles …. thats an argument in a null set … <br />either way i’ll ignore all that and just go a bit further. Since the article didn’t mention them partaking in any illicit behaviour this is pure arguing against life style choice and freedoms. since all that is sexual is just your presuposition untill they are witnessed. <br /><br />so based on that, do you think there should be a limit to how many piercings a guy/girl should have ? how about hair length, style or color ? should i get to clothing ? so to close the loop, it is all based on your relative morality.<br />
I saw the news a while ago, and I just thought the girl had a hot body :P<br />I mean, who wouldn’t want that pet? haha<br /><br />yeah me being totally ma ilee da5al bel mawdoo3 :)<br />
<p>Omar, dude, I thought the bf had a very nice outfit and hair going on. But his face just didn’t make the cut for me.</p>
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<p>I LOVE his jacket and his hair.</p>
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Eh, they look like walking cliches who think they’re being transgressive. Sadly, the bus driver gave them exactly what they want: attention and controversy. <br /><br />They look like fools, but they’re not harming anyone. The bus driver was in the wrong.<br />
hahaha, you’d get to be a pet and i’d get a new pets<br />awesomeness, no? hahaha - weirdly enough, the jacket <span style="font-style: italic;">is</span> cool! But come on, who looks at the jacket when you get that pet on the right? haha<br />
I am nobody’s pet, Omar. Grrr! The girl has a whale-figure, so not my type.
what? whale? do whales have waists? haha
Hani Obaid:
who says they’re weirdo’s?
<p>you (i presume) like ‘normal’ things like normal girls/boys, straight couples etc.</p>
<p>no-one disses you for your culture or choices. why don’t you do the same?</p>
<p>you’re allowed to make your own decisions and choices about what you want to do, how you want to dress, and who you want to be seen with, but other people aren’t?</p>
<p>i mean, who gave you the right, but not them? it’s not like theyre any different.</p>
<p>Abdullah:</p>
<p>NORMAL us? who do you think you are?</p>
<p>if this was totally the norm, kids (and adults, for that matter) wouldn’t see the differnce between ‘people-animal’ couples and ‘people-people’ couples.</p>
<p>we should all be able to decide what we want to do and how we want to be, and haters like you lot on here shouldn’t even exist, let alone get away with critisising it.</p>
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Claudia; I’ve read your post three or four times trying to infer the reason for your wrath and offensive trend.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span class="commenttitle"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Yes I agree “we should all be able to decide what we want to do and how we want to be” but you can’t deny that being a “Human-pet” and/or “gay” is obviously un-inherent and abnormal in all aspects: religious, medical, sociology, psychology, physically ….etc
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span class="commenttitle"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Am not criticizing, this is a fact, yes you have the right to be what you want to be, but you don’t have the right to force others to accept you the way you are</span></span>.<span class="commenttitle">
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