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- From: paul@sco.COM (Paul Jackson)
- Subject: Re: meat eaters (was: Re: Gun Control Petition)
- Organization: SCO Canada, Inc.
- Distribution: can
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:16:42 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.161642.17048@sco.COM>
- References: <schuck.724449059@sfu.ca> <1992Dec15.202513.2976@cdf.toronto.edu> <schuck.724456188@sfu.ca>
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- In article <schuck.724456188@sfu.ca> Bruce_Schuck@sfu.ca writes:
- >Is the SPCA cruel to animals when it 'puts to sleep' thousands of
- >animals each year? No.
-
- Yes it is. The cruelty of killing them is less than the cruelty of allowing
- them to live, but it IS cruel to deprive healthy animals of their lives.
- I'm using cruelty in a broader sense than the dictionary definition of
- "causing pain and distress" here. I'd consider it cruel for somebody to kill
- me.
-
- >Eating meat is normal.
- >Killing an animal to eat it is normal.
-
- Normal, yes. Cruel, yes.
-
- >
- >Stop promoting vegetarianism as an ethical choice by ethical people as
- >if vegetarians are more *moral*.
- >
- >A truly *ethical* person who wanted to cause no cruelty -- by your
- >definition- would kill themselves and stop competing with animals for
- >food, air and living space.
-
- My, aren't we an absolutist who sees the world in black and white. It is not
- a matter of being ethical or nor being ethical, it is a spectrum along which
- individuals fall.
-
- Somebody who refuses to kill and eat animals when there is a reasonable
- alternative because they believe that animals also have significant rights
- IS being more ethical in this area than one who doesn't. This does NOT mean
- that somebody who eats meats is an evil scum.
-
- Disclaimer - although I believe the above I personally am NOT a vegetarian,
- I just like the taste of meat too much and dislike the effort needed to be a
- vegetarian. I don't feel that this makes me an unethical or evil person,
- but I freely admit that I would be MORE ethical if I refused to eat meat.
- Unfortunately, like everybody else, I am human and therefore fail to meet my
- own ideal standards in many ways.
-