The Partisan Divide on Issues

[pbrower2a]

(05-04-2020, 10:12 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(04-27-2020, 11:41 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: If people cannot agree on basic ideology they can agree on what makes good character.  There is no liberal or conservative version of the Ten Commandments or the Golden Rule. There is no liberal or conservative version of the Constitution, the moral principles behind which the federal government ideally operates. Donald Trump is President and we can loathe him or love him and anything in between, but such is opinion.

Reality can have a liberal or conservative bias depending upon which side of the political spectrum is most deluded at the time, but all in all basic truth does not have a partisan bias. The laws of logic and some basic realities of arithmetic, geometry, and physics remain the same, at least as wise people understand them, from antiquity. Thus

Fluffy is a cat
Cats are predators
Fluffy is a predator

is valid.  In contrast

Cats are predators
Snakes are predators

Is Fluffy a domestic cat or a feral cat? If Fluffy is a feral cat then what you stated above about Fluffy the cat directly applies. I had a domestic cat named Buddy that wouldn't harm a fly.

My family had a pet cat who was best described as tame inside the house but feral outside. Once outside our cat showed beyond any doubt what a cat is. Except for size:




(OK, our cat had tiger-like stripes instead of spots, but unlike a tiger it was a good climber and was scared of water). He specialized in birds, using our suburban shrubs as a blind for ambushing any small bird that ventured too close. We have a declawed mini-tiger in our house, and he caught a mouse.

Your cat may live on a diet of 100% cat food if he stays inside at all times, which is best for birds. But cat food is meat, as cats are obligate carnivores as are all snakes. 

For viciousness that rivals that of tigers, just think of a rat tiger -- excuse me, rat terrier.

... Fluffy would probably kill a mouse, grasshopper, or small bird that it got a chance to dispatch. Cats are supreme killing machines, and all that keeps a domestic or feral cat from killing and eating you is its small size.