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Both can be equally demeaning and morally questionable to certain parts of the population but let's be real here, killing an "innocent animal" is much more cont
by randallsquared 16y ago
Both can be equally demeaning and morally questionable to certain parts of the population but let's be real here, killing an "innocent animal" is much more controversial than what is shown on TV almost every night.
In a culture where steakhouses dot the roadsides, it seems odd to assert that killing an "innocent animal" is controversial at all. In some US locality where vegetarians make up the vast majority of the population, maybe, but does a place like that even exist?
I haven't seen the video; I'm just speaking to that one sentence, really.
- adolph 16y agoDumbo = innocent; Elsie = delicious;
- chc 16y agoI don't understand your point. You're just restating the hypocrisy that randallsquared pointed out.
- lukeschlather 16y agoThere's nothing hypocritical or even illogical about special casing every single species with varying levels of concern. At some point you have a set of purely irrational axioms about some qualities, be they kingdom, phylum, family, genus, species, or some other subjective criteria for what makes a living creature worthy of consideration when its life is in danger.
- chc 16y agoIf you don't believe there's a rational basis to this consideration, it's hypocritical to criticize somebody else for having a different but no less valid set of qualities he considers.
- lukeschlather 16y agoNot at all. I'm criticizing you for your repeated misuse of the word hypocritical. (And your attempt to equate disagreement with your viewpoint to a failure of logic.) If you can't have a reasonable discussion without name calling, you don't belong here.
- drzaiusapelord 16y agochc, humans call this humor or satire.
- WiseWeasel 16y agoReally? You don't see how flying in a rich westerner into some poverty-stricken region of the developing world to carry out an endangered wild big-game trophy hunt might be more controversial than killing an animal farmed for food for its intended purpose? I don't buy it, and as someone with so much at stake, he should have known better.