After reading about Jack the Cat I caught myself thinking. Damn, so for humans we will not under any circumstance help kill one, even if they ask for it themselves. I can't choose to end life if I so wish, and it's illegal for me to even try.
But for an animal, we assume that small chance of survival and high amounts of suffering means the cat is better off being killed. Isn't the will to live instinctive? Or, if it's so important to keep a human that wants to die from doing so, why do we then judge that quality of life is measured by pain or lack thereof? Why don't we kill burn victims?
My point isn't that we should start to let people that want to commit suicide do so, the point is why the fuck are we killing animals when they might want to live for all we know? Why do we pretend to be a God for animals when they are instinctively programmed to strive on no matter what?
Meh.