From: dreamer@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (David Caruso II ~~~)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.animals
Subject: A Policy of Peace.
Date: 13 Aug 92 16:58:14 CDT
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	OKAY.  In this post, I'll cut the symbolism, the rhetoric, the images
and simply say it ... then perhaps hunters might finally understand my point of
view.  But I know ... I know ... I've aroused you so much before that you don't
even want to care about my opinions because your arguments are so weak that
they cannot withstand any touching at their foundation, so you tune me out or
you choose to miss my point and delude my ideas or you resort to making false
conclusions about me or you attempt to degrade my integrity to uphold your
arguments.  It's happened before and it will happen again. 

	So, in light of this, let me attempt to make myself very clear:

	Killing when it is NOT absolutely NECESSARY is WRONG.  Wrong.  Violence 
when it is not necessary is primitive, destructive, and spawns all kinds of 
misery into this world.  I know it sounds idealistic.  I know I sound like a
real wimp for saying it.  I know it sounds almost cliche.  But it's TRUE. 
Really think about what I have to say.  If you don't, just FORGET everything I 
say here.

	Now ... step back for a moment and take a long, hard look at the big
picture.  Killing for any unnecessary reason is wrong here.  Hunters are wrong
here, because they kill for reasons other than their direct survival. (Now,
notice, that this statement is void to any hunter who kills because his direct
survival depends on it, okay?) 

	My whole, entire point is based on the above general statement.  I 
don't care how much skill hunting takes.  I don't care how environmentally-
conscience hunters are.  I don't care how fast they kill a creature.  NONE of 
that matters, because it ALL boils down to the fact that SPORT hunters do it 
even though their own LIFE does NOT depend on it.  Don't argue morals with me 
on this one ... after stepping back and taking a broad look at the grand
scheme of things, you'll see that unnecessary destruction of life is always
corrupt and terrible.

	I feel compassion for ALL creatures that are natural and peaceful with
the world, and I am NOT a "basket-case," as one hunter here put it.  Such
emotion is under control.  But I recognize these emotions.  When you shoot an
animal, even though your life does not depend on it, I feel ANGRY and SAD.  And
it makes me even more angry and very, very sad to know that there are people
who think not enough at all about destroying life.  I mean this completely. 

	Destroying life is the single worst cause of all the world's misery.
Just IMAGINE for a moment that EVERYONE *TRULY* respected ALL life.  Simply
that.  Can you imagine it?  No more wars.  No more crime that hurts others.
Our precious (and it IS a very precious thing) environment, which includes so
many wondrous and unique creatures, can continue in peace. 

	I am the type of person who does not consider the here and now as much
as I consider the grand scheme of all things.  This kind of thought creates
communication gaps between me and the short-term viewers, the selfish, and the 
close-minded.  The person reading this may be none, one, or all of these
things.

	I'll never back down on this:  Killing when it is NOT ABSOLUTELY
NECESSARY is wrong.  It's wrong wrong wrong.  Believe me, my eyes are open.
Violence must be avoided at all costs.  It solves nothing.  People MUST learn
to be non-violent and non-selfish if we are to improve as a race.  It's that
simple.  And I choose to make the step, alone, or with others.  It does not
matter, because it's do or die.  I choose do, and I choose life. 

	Go ahead.  Flame away.  Try to hide from this issue.  Fling mud into 
the waters of my ideas.  The real truth does not change.


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David Caruso II                       "Great minds are the most misunderstood."
dreamer@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu						-- DAC2