No, but remember, dogs are edible, you can always eat them if they destroy your stuff. Which is perfectly legal around here, just as long as you don't abuse the animal when you're putting it down.
It's best not to criticize mods in an open forum on any forum. If you don't like the way it's done, it's generally best to talk with the people that own the board.
I'm not some animal rights activist, but I'll ask you what for? Their nervous system parts responsible for handling things like pain are not that different from ours, so it's reasonable to state you are generating the same kind of suffering that you would do if you kicked a human person. The only difference is that it's helpless and nobody will complain or go after you because of this. I can only assume you have some sort of weird sadistic tendencies.
If you really want to express racist, sexist or sadistical "opinions" or "jokes", you're free to make your own website and put them there. This forum however is not the place for that. You can call that "overmoderation" or even "censorship" if you want to, I don't care. I see no reason at all why we should allow such idiotic nonsense and waste any of ED's disk space and bandwidth on hosting it.
That's because humans are superior to animals. Doesn't mean that it's OK to abuse them though, but it always shocks me when I read opinions that animals are as good as humans.
If you're put into the same element than the goldfish (water) you die, then the goldfish is superior than you.
