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It's not offensive to "vegetarians" – it's offensive to people who care about living beings.
by sunchild 16y ago
It's not offensive to "vegetarians" – it's offensive to people who care about living beings.
- chc 16y agoIf you're offended by the practice of killing living beings for food, but you're not a vegetarian, what you are is simply inconsistent.
- lukeschlather 16y agoSunchild didn't say anything about killing living beings for food. Only that as a person who cares about living beings, this seems offensive. You're assuming a very specific value system on the basis of a single, vague axiom.
- alinajaf 16y agoHate to pick nits, but you mean living animals. Plants are alive too.
- sunchild 16y agoYou're putting words in my mouth there. There's killing in the name of hunger, and then there's killing in the name of sport. I don't give a shit how much PR GoDaddy wraps around this story (hungry villagers, elephants on a rampage to destroy crops, funding other wildlife preserves, etc.), this is killing for sport. There's no valid need to kill this animal. If the villagers themselves had taken care of it (or if a game warden had culled the animal as part of a considered program that benefits both human and elephant populations), I may feel differently.