On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Joseph McAllister <pentax...@mac.com> wrote:
> My point was that the natural lives of all of these items are truncated at > some point for consumption by some life form, especially us! We do not wait > for the apple to fall from the tree to eat it. The apples "job" is to fall > on it's own, rot and enrich the soil where it fell so it's seeds can produce > a replacement tree for the one from which it came. > > Eve started this nature interuptus long ago, didn't she? Or was that Adam. > Or was it the snake? I take the position that I won't harm sentient beings. That's my cut off. Don't ask me to explain, justify or rationalize it. That's my position. Now you (collectively) can start with your slippery slope arguments: "What about (for instance) sea cucumbers? They probably can't feel, can they? If they can't feel, why not harm them? I heard that fish, although they have a nervous system, don't feel pain. Does that mean we can eat them?" It matters not. I don't have to justify my choice. You'll all have to live with the ramifications of your individual decisions. But you all knew that already, didn't you? Look, you can all eat whatever you want, for whatever reasons you want. Eat veal, shark fin soup, buy cans of tuna caught with nets that also drown dolphins. I'm "voting with my feet" as it were. I will not do that stuff, nor will I eat or buy anything that's derived from animals. I'm done with this thread (I know I've said that before, but this time I really really really mean it. For keeps. The end. Infinity. And you can't get any longer than infinity, can you?). ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
