From: korpela@rocket.ssl.berkeley.edu (Eric J. Korpela)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.animals
Subject: Re: A Policy of Peace.
Date: 17 Aug 1992 19:17:25 GMT
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In article <1992Aug13.165814.42338@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> dreamer@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (David Caruso II ~~~) writes:
> [Stuff Deleted]
>	So, in light of this, let me attempt to make myself very clear:
>
>	Killing when it is NOT absolutely NECESSARY is WRONG.  Wrong.  

If you truly believe this, you'd better go join a tribe of vegetarian
gatherers, because your lifestyle is causing lots of unnecessary deaths.

I can see right now that you are guilty of using electricity.  It's not
necessary for you to do so.  How many coal miners died bringing you power?
How many construction workers were killed building the power plant?  How
much environmental damage is your acid rain causing?  Are your CO2 emissions
going to destroy the planet?

I'd guess that you are guilty of use of an automobile, as well.  Thousands
of people and animals are killed each year, sacrificed for the sake of
convenient transportation.  Were those deaths absolutely necessary?
Not by a long shot.  Does David Caruso II still drive?  Probably.
 
I'd guess that you are also guilty of using plastics, burning fossil fuels,
eating factory farmed crops.  I'd bet there's a can of Raid under your sink.
You may even own a mouse trap.  I'll bet that you use Lysol to clean your
bathroom.  You probably even use a vacuum cleaner.  You probably flush
your toilet from time to time.  All these things cause unnecessary death.
You should probably stop doing them. 

It's a sad but true fact:  The law of entropy says that we have no choice
but to take more from the universe than we will ever give back.  We will
always cause more damage than we can repair.  If you really want to minimize
the damage that you do, you should dig yourself a hole, jump in, and cover
yourself up.

Death, necessary or not, is a part of life.  We all, including you, rationalize
the deaths that we cause as acceptable losses.  You, however, seem to be
unwilling to accept that you cause unnecessary death.  You hide it from
yourself by thinking that you don't participate directly in the deaths, 
therefore you have no responsibility for them.  

A hunter understands the death he is causing.  He is there to experience
it.  And maybe the hunter comes away with a larger understanding of the
death and the life that is going on around him.  And a chance at understanding
is much better than self-imposed ignorance any day.


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

Nice quote.  You certainly do have a high opinion of yourself, dont you.

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