Don't humans murder animals for food and fur, etc?????
No. Society is at its most basic formed through shared characteristics and essential biological nature. When a member of a certain society (for no reason) infringes upon a shared characteristic in another member of the society, “guiltiness” is the moral result. For this reason we do not hold horses “guilty” for kicking humans while we would hold any normal man guilty for performing the same act against another innocent human. We intuitively sense that the horse does not share our essentially human character and therefore we instinctively do not hold him to the morality demanded by that character. The same applies to birds that break the laws of the FAA. Contrariwise, we sense that a man ought to know better than to kick an innocent human because we see he fundamentally shares the same nature, including essential intellect, with that human. When he kicks us, he kicks the same nature that he himself shares, destroying the very thing that joins he and us into humanity. When he kicks us such that he infringes upon our right to life, a specie of guilt called “murder” is the result. It is the ultimate severance of human society. A moral determination of “murder” cannot therefore apply to a man’s killing an animal for food.
Bear in mind, we are all animals.
But we do not all share the same essential biological nature, which means we are not all part of the same biological society. However much you wish to do it, you cannot marry a dog. You are not biologically equal or compatible with the dog and therefore cannot form civilized society with it.
And btw, there are homosexuals among other animals....
There are also polygamists and thieves among other animals. |
