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If you think about this in consequentialist terms poachers are far worse in every respect. I'm a pacifist, a vegetarian, and an ecologist. I am glad the hogs ar
by nemo 4y ago
If you think about this in consequentialist terms poachers are far worse in every respect. I'm a pacifist, a vegetarian, and an ecologist. I am glad the hogs are getting culled, that's a valuable outcome. I don't care if the people who cull the hogs enjoy it. I wouldn't, I'm glad someone does, they're doing something with a good outcome, even if you think their motivations are unsavory.
- propagandist 4y agoCulling is not the issue. The passion is. You don't need to be any of the things you mentioned to understand the problem with killing for entertainment.
- salawat 4y agoLook. Tend a garden. You too will soon realize it's all a part of doing what comes naturally. Nature, as it turns out, laughs in the face of anything unwilling to speak the language of death.
- propagandist 4y agoSorry, you have trouble reading. Death is not the issue.
- salawat 4y agoI'm afraid you're the one not getting it. The passion, and the deed go hand in hand. It is hard work to cultivate and maintain something against encroachment by Nature. Anyone that tells you there is no satisfaction gained from securing the safety of their environment from an intrusive force is either lying to you, or deluding themselves. Death wish, and its management is all a weird part of being alive, and in fact, it's channeling into productive active activity instead of straight up warfare is crucial to peaceful coexistence. It's one of the few things Freud may have actually kind of gotten right, tbqh. Heidigger calls it angst, and it's central to the concept of care, and by extension, to the act of Being. It takes time to become comfortable with.
- splistud 4y ago