Come for the funny, stay for the ethical debate.

[meowse]

Pet adoption service run by atheists for post-Rapture pets. Ethical business contract, or scamming the gullible? You decide. The debate is already going on in the comments.

Comments

[pyffe]

That is *bleepin* brilliant! Thanks for sharing it.

[dcseain]

I approve, myself.

[gramina]

There appears to me to be, in the comments, a profound confusion between the question of "is this legal" and "is this ethical" -- those are Not The Same.

(And, of course, once again there are some people who are painting with a damned broad brush; I'm glad to see that's not everyone.)

[zillah975]

Of course, now I'm hoping for the Rapture. I never thought anyone could get me to do that, but think how surprised all those new pet owners would be.

(This is me, stifling my many rude comments about a particular breed of atheist.)

[meowse]

Man, if the Rapture comes, I'm going to have much bigger worries on my mind than "Oh, no, pets to care for!" Quite frankly, in that eventuality, I think I'd find having a sudden influx of pets quite a relief. Something to cuddle, and immediate concerns to take my mind off of much greater worries.

[gramina]

What greater worries? If the True Believers are right, how much would your life actually be disrupted in the event they were raptured?

(I mean, you surely don't expect *their* God would have anything to do with, say, me, do you?)

[gramina]

*grins* I admit, I love that mental picture. "Um... ok, I know how to deal with the three dogs and seventeen cats, but what on *earth* am I going to do with the llama??"

OTOH, given the perspectives of many rapture-afficionados, I don't really expect that the rapture of all seventeen True Believers is going to cause all that much distress.

(And if *I'm* right in my basic attitudes, but wrong about the rapture scenario being unlikely, those seventeen True Believers are going to have a *awful lot* of animals to take care of! ... um, except that they'd be raptured along with me and thee, so, oh well. ;) )

[gfish]

Given that it is explicit in saying "we don't believe your mythology, but sure, we'll help you deal with a logical conclusion of your crazy setup", it's pretty hard to call it a scam. Certainly more ethical than, say, the lottery.