Reply to Re: PETA KILLS ANIMALS?!?!
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Even though I get the idea of reasoning Skull and Someone point out, I totally, and very strongly, disagree.
In my eyes, it is completely ridiculous to treat every living creature who isn't up to your 'morality levels' with non-morality, because they can't be morally involved with you. The fact that you can be moral and think about your consequences, gives you the power, or better yet, the responsibility to act upon it.
As many others have pointed out, animals can experience a lot of different emotions and feelings (ooh I sound like a downright hippy right now). Even though animals cannot think abstractly, that doesn't give humans the right to just mistreat them, because they can't figure out why. They experience it and suffer from it, therefore it is abuse.
If I were a pig, and I was given a human mind, dang right I would make humans suffer as well, they deserve it for all those decades of cruelty. This has nothing to do with a natural tendency to make less intellectual beings suffer, but simply with a matter of 'what comes around goes around'.
In my eyes, it is completely ridiculous to treat every living creature who isn't up to your 'morality levels' with non-morality, because they can't be morally involved with you. The fact that you can be moral and think about your consequences, gives you the power, or better yet, the responsibility to act upon it.
As many others have pointed out, animals can experience a lot of different emotions and feelings (ooh I sound like a downright hippy right now). Even though animals cannot think abstractly, that doesn't give humans the right to just mistreat them, because they can't figure out why. They experience it and suffer from it, therefore it is abuse.
If I were a pig, and I was given a human mind, dang right I would make humans suffer as well, they deserve it for all those decades of cruelty. This has nothing to do with a natural tendency to make less intellectual beings suffer, but simply with a matter of 'what comes around goes around'.
