Reply #27: How about "No, unless..." [View All]

[Sapphocrat]

"No, unless..." one twists that biblical business about having domain over animals into the Coulteresque belief that we're here to "rape the planet," because God said so.

Which I don't believe. If I believed in the Bible, I would take that reference to mean we are stewards to everything we dominate, including animals. (Which doesn't explain Deuteronomy 12, but again, I don't believe in the Bible, particularly the OT.)

I say our very physical makeup provides the answer: Neither our teeth nor our guts were designed* for chewing and processing flesh. That said: Beyond eating animals, what reason do we have to kill them?

Yes, there's "sport" -- but then I think people who take pleasure in blowing away Bambi with a 30.06 have some serious issues.


* "designed" = for lack of a better word; not to be confused with the meaningless phrase "intelligent design"; to wit: