Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.2) 9/5/84; site idsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!pesnta!idsvax!steiny From: steiny@idsvax.UUCP (Don Steiny) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Re: home defense (& killing deer) Message-ID: <181@idsvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 11:27:51 EDT Article-I.D.: idsvax.181 Posted: Thu Jun 27 11:27:51 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 03:27:57 EDT References: <1195@utcsri.UUCP> <962@mhuxt.UUCP> Organization: Independent Consultant - C/UNIX, Natural Language Lines: 22 > > > Woa there! 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). > > Sorry to get off topic, but that's net.misc for you. > > Ed Brown > So what is that difference? (I hope you won't think I'm trying to > retroactively change the question if I specify here hunting where the > hunter plans on eating the meat obtained. I certainly don't feel like > defending psychotics who just enjoy blowing things away.) If there's a > definite moral difference, Ed, I'm sure you wouldn't mind letting me > know what it is? > Jeff Sonntag I do not favor any morality or another, but in "Spy of the Century" a book about the leader of the German Intelligence, Reinhart Gehlen, it mentions that Hitler was a strict vegetarian who was concerned about the killing of animals and even saw to it that laws were passed dictating that animals be killed in as painless a manner as possible. The fellow definately had non-standard priorities.