quote:Originally posted by BaftaBabe Vegetarians shouldn't believe they aren't killing animals by their choice. Every time a crop is released from the soil many tiny animals die. The animals killed in vegetable production are insects not mammals, but they are still animals, so where's the moral line? Four legs bad, eight legs good?
Consider also, the human immune system which kills countless bacteria and viruses. Let us not demonstrate speciesism against those either.
quote:Originally posted by BaftaBabe Vegetarians shouldn't believe they aren't killing animals by their choice. Every time a crop is released from the soil many tiny animals die. The animals killed in vegetable production are insects not mammals, but they are still animals, so where's the moral line? Four legs bad, eight legs good?
Consider also, the human immune system which kills countless bacteria and viruses. Let us not demonstrate speciesism against those either.
Quite right! Or ... as a vegan friend of mine once said when I pointed out these anomalies: "But then I couldn't eat anything!" My point exactly
There is no moral equivalent between killing something which will harm you and killing something which will not harm you. To try to equate them is absurd, just as its absurd to think a court would equate a killing in self-defence with a pre-meditated murder.
It's also wrong to equate the killing of insects which occurs as an unavoidable biproduct of horticulture with the deliberate killing of "food species" because one is necessary and the other is not.
Is there some reason why making "clever" arguments to justify mass killing makes me feel just a little disgusted?
Vegetarian
Posted - 08/17/2008 : 16:56:05
Or ... as a vegan friend of mine once said when I pointed out these anomalies: "But then I couldn't eat anything!" My point exactly 
