@QueenCold  
No need to tell me about with the US (I’m not trying to give you grief, just agreeing). When I was a kid growing up in Southeastern PA the killing of random rattlesnakes with the nearest stick you could find wasn’t even worthy of comment. Unless you got bitten.
 
Plus, most of the people I knew grew up on and around farms. Killing your own dinner was perfectly normal with them. Which was why you didn’t give them names. You can eat the rabbit you butchered, but you can’t eat Hoppy.

@Ardashir  
Or Europe and the United States not too long ago. Widespread concern for animal welfare is a relatively recent development. There have always been exceptions, but that’s what they were. People were generally much less kind to animals a hundred years ago, even to animals like cats. Children blowing up frogs for fun was a common occurrence as late as the 50s.
 
I’m just saying that even among humans, kindness to animals isn’t inherently culturally ingrained no matter where you go. Dragons clearly subscribe to a different morality than ponies, so it’s not as obvious as people make it out that Garble should see something wrong with what he did. No one around him except the outsider took issue either.

@DTavs.exe  
These people were talking about places like Indian villages and local markets in Ecuador, and some African countries.

@Ardashir  
It would depend on the third world country, I live in one and here is pretty frown upon to hurt or kill animals even for dinner in front of people, in the markets you buy your meat, seafood and poultry either dead or alive, they won’t kill it in front of you if you buy it alive, you would need to carry it and kill it in private or buy it already dead.

@QueenCold  
I have friends who spent weeks to months living in various Third World countries. They told me it’s quite the experience to pick out your dinner, and then see it be slaughtered and butchered right in front of you.

@QueenCold  
It pays to be bold.

@XD-385  
Bold of you to assume dragons have the same hang-ups about animal cruelty as ponies or (western) humans (from the last century or so).

tastes just like chicken!

Then how do you justify the attempted slaughter of Phoenix chicks that night, buttmunch?

yeah that shield thing was not cool on spike and rainbow dash’s part.
 
of course the fact that he happened to be surfing with that one shield just totally coincidentally right that moment…

Garble’s got some points.
 
But the thing about him and that dragon couple leading to the beating of a lifetime? Oh how I would love to see that.