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Originally Posted by markytom  Are you vegetarian . . . or evil
Can't wait since I whined before about how being vegetarian/non-vegetarian was a poor analogy for light-worker versus dark-worker. I believe that yanking a happily-living carrot out of the ground and cruelly ingesting it is equally as "bad" or "evil" as ripping the charred flesh off the bones of a chicken wing. HA. Our beliefs are arbitrarily chosen and the lines end up often being gray, not black and white. One could come up with endless hypothetical situations where someone with strong beliefs will act like a hypocrite. If you are stout vegetarian would you eat beef jerky if the other option were starvation? How about your 3-year-old child - would you feed your child meat to keep her from dying of starvation? Would you kill your child if it meant that 10 other children would not be killed? How about 1000? Where do you draw the lines? If you ask yourself enough hypotheticals you will find that your beliefs aren't carved in stone, instead you will find that they are fluid and can be changed and rationalized - meaning that they are merely arbitrary. And that's a good thing. And very powerful. |
Fortunately we aren't dealing with absolute right and wrongs here. We're dealing with a specific situation: that animal farming is very damaging to the environment, most of our crops go to feeding those animals, and the land taken up by animal farming could be put to much better use. "It tastes good" is the only defence of eating meat and as far as moral arguments go, not a very strong one.