Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site utcsri.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!brown From: brown@utcsri.UUCP (Edward Brown) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: home defense (& killing deer) Message-ID: <1212@utcsri.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 11:36:43 EDT Article-I.D.: utcsri.1212 Posted: Fri Jun 28 11:36:43 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 11:42:34 EDT References: <1195@utcsri.UUCP> <962@mhuxt.UUCP> Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Lines: 27 [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. I hope I've managed to express my feelings comprehensibly. I'm not sure how strongly I feel about it, and I do recognize there are attitudes out there like "It's our country, so anything out there belongs to us." Ed Brown ..utcsri!brown