Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site wlcrjs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!wlcrjs!magik From: magik@wlcrjs.UUCP (Ben Liberman) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: home defense (& killing deer) Message-ID: <729@wlcrjs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 03:25:28 EDT Article-I.D.: wlcrjs.729 Posted: Tue Jul 2 03:25:28 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 07:47:41 EDT References: <1195@utcsri.UUCP> <962@mhuxt.UUCP> <1212@utcsri.UUCP> Reply-To: magik@wlcrjs.UUCP (Ben Liberman) Organization: chi-net, Public Access UN*X, Chicago IL Lines: 27 Summary: In article <1212@utcsri.UUCP> brown@utcsri.UUCP (Edward Brown) writes: >[Only two weeks to first line season] > > >>> There is a definite moral difference between killing >>> wildlife and supporting the butchering of domestic animals that were raised >>> for that purpose. (Not that I exclusively object to or condone either). > - me > >> So what is that difference? >> Jeff Sonntag >> ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j > > This is what I perceive as a moral difference:: the domestic animal >was brought into existance, raised, fed, and cared for by human for the >express purpose of becoming somebody's food. As such, it is conceiveable >that these humans have some sort of claim to its life. >None of these considerations apply to the wild animal, it came into >exisistance without direct human intervention and therefore man cannot >claim propriety over its life using the same (however valid) reasoning. Gosh, I hope that my parents aren't on the net. I mean, they did raise, feed and care for me (for quite a while, I might add) I'd hate to wind up as lunch for the PTA or something. -- ----------------------------------------- Ben Liberman {ihnp4|ihldt}!wlcrjs!magik