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| Sep 09, 2009 8:20 am |
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re: re: re: Stray dog menace - An appeal |
Maddy
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Quoting Gandhiji in the issue of YOUNG INDIA(Oct-Dec 1926)...
"Perfect, erring mortals as we are, there is no course open to us but the destruction of rabid dogs. At times we may be faced with the unavoidable duty of killing even a man who is found in the act of killing people. [...] It is a thousand pities that the questions of stray dogs, etc. assume such a monstrous proportion in this sacred land of ahimsa. It is my firm conviction that we are propogating himsa in the name of ahimsa owing to our deep ignorance of this great principle...It is a sin, it should be a sin to feed stray dogs, and we should save numerous dogs if we had legislation making every stray dog liable to be shot.... Humanity is a noble attribute of the soul. It is not exhausted with saving a few dogs. Such saving may even be sinful." (YOUNG INDIA 21.10.26)
"The multiplication of dogs is unnecessary. A roving dog without an owner is a danger to society and a swarm of them is a menace to its (society's) very existence...But can we take individual charge of these roving dogs? And if we cannot, can we have a pinjarapole for them? If both these things are impossible, there seems to be no alternative except to kill them...I am, therefore, strongly of opinion that, if we would practise the religion of humanity, we should have a law making it obligatory on those who would have dogs to keep them under guard, and not allow them to stray, and making all stray dogs liable to be destroyed after a certain date." (YOUNG INDIA 28.10.26)
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