Reply #59: I am offended at you equating animals and humans.... [View All]

[expatriot]

"we are just animals and animals eat and use other animals and have since the beginning and will continue forever."

So why is it not offensive to say humans "are just animals" when you say that but when PETA makes the comparison it is offensive?


As for me separating and equating animals and humans on the same levels... This is what I am separating and equating....

The qualities of animals and humans that I equate is, first of all, we are biologically animals, and second of all is our shared capacity to suffer.

The qualities of animals and humans thwart I separate is that the human intellectual capacity has far exceeded that of the rest of animal kingdom.


As to your later points....


They do not demand people stop eating meat. They persuade. Was I born a vegan? When I started dating my wife, who is the hardest of the hardcore animal rights activists out there, seven years ago, when I would spend weekends on her campus she would always roast cornish hens for us to eat. those little cute cornish hens. My favorite meal in the dorm cafetaria was all you can eat buffalo wings. I accepted my best friend and roommate's motto that "Plants aren't food, plants are what food eats." It was not until years later that things started happening that started cracking at the hard shell of indoctrination. And guess what did it for us? PETA videos. Farm Sanctuary videos. Now my old friend even, whose motto was "Plants are food, Plants are what food eats" no longer eats meat. He is not vegan and eats some fish but has really turned around. There is nothing genetic about it. As long as your body can find alternative sources of nutrition. It's a choice. Shit, it's late.