If you do not value property over life, then why do you value property enough to refrain from destroying someone else’s property, yet (and please correct me if you are vegans) you do not value life enough to refrain from destroying lives that belong to other sentient beings?
Because in a civilized society, it is wrong to destroy someone else’s property. Why this has to be explained to what appears to be a well-educated person is beyond us. Here is a quote you might like.
“In the natural world, every living thing, be it plant or animal, exploits every other living thing that exists on the planet in order to survive just one more day regardless of the degree of separation. Like it or not, that is nature.”
How does what you say fit into nature? There are creatures all over the world, lions, tigers, and bears, etc… that take the lives of other creatures. Why is man any different?
With respect to exterminators, personally, I’ve never liked them. Particularly after I discovered that extermination was Tom DeLay’s former profession. Yes, thanks to DeLay, the smidgeon of goodwill exterminators had left with me went right out the proverbial window.
Best regards,
Jason
If you believe that it is acceptable to destroy property belonging to people that are “destroying lives that belong to other sentient beings,” why do you not encourage destroying the property of exterminating companies like Orkin or Teminix? Why not burn down slaughterhouses rather than attack and destroy and terrorize researchers that you know cannot defend themselves? Wait, we might have just answered our own question.
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Sincerely,
The Men and Women of
TargetOfOpportunity.com
Located Throughout the
United States of America
4/4/09
Jason S. Miller wrote:
Hello,
Great to hear back from you!
While it’s true that living necessarily entails causing the deaths of other sentient beings (one can even take that to the level of absurdity and think in terms of the insects that we unwittingly step upon as we walk or the microbes that our immune system eradicates), and it’s true that there are predatory nonhuman animals, nonhuman animals don’t willfully and intentionally inflict widespread, unnecessary suffering upon other sentient beings the way we human animals do. We vegans realize that it is impossible to function in the world without killing other sentient beings (i.e. insects and microbes or in self defense or extensional self defense). However, we embrace an ethical commitment to come as close as we possibly can to eliminating nonhuman animal exploitation of any sort. Personally, I loved eating “meat,” but I realized how cruel it was for a human animal, who does not HAVE to eat “meat” to live, to consume the flesh of another sentient being when there are so many alternative foods. Thus I became a vegan and animal liberationist. The four baselines here are sentience, intent, necessity, and unavoidability.
It is no more cruel or unnatural for a human to eat meat than it is for a lion to eat meat. Man has been eating meat for 200,000+ years. You being a Vegan is a choice you made for yourself. If you really believe that it is cruel to eat the flesh of another animal, then why do you not attack consumers that buy meat. The demand for meat is the reason that there is a supply. If it is wrong for a slaughterhouse to exist, then it is wrong for any of the consumption after the product leaves the slaughterhouse. Why not target consumers? Are they not a suitable target. You should destroy their homes and cars and other personal property, that is if you really believe your convictions. They would certainly be fair targets by your own reasoning.
