Two candidates for the office of dog-catcher rise. The first seems unaccustomed to public speaking. He offers no grandiose speech. He just calmly says "If you elect me, I'm going to do my best to round up these packs of feral dogs we've got around here, attacking children and family pets and the like. That's about it." He sits down.

Now his opponent rises, waving his arms, seemingly quite agitated, growing red in the face.

"I reject this offensive, dangerous rhetoric!" the second candidate shouts. "I'm a passionate defender of man's best friend, the dog! I'll have you know that dogs kill a lot fewer children than adult humans do! Furthermore, I consider my opponent's anti-dog rhetoric to be incendiary! It amounts to species-ism! And there are too many of them, anyway; you'd never get them all. It's ridiculous! My opponent's proposal to round up hundreds of our freedom-loving, tail-wagging canine friends is nuts! It's just plain crazy!"