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To: coug who wrote (4256)	3/6/2001 10:07:48 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

I'm not sure any substantive response to you would be appropriate on this thread. Maybe you should repost this on BR?

To: coug who wrote (4256)	3/6/2001 10:51:00 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 6089

Just read this interesting line of posts- FWIW my family has been a member of PETA for a long time. Because we are for the ethical treatment of animals. I'm not for killing people to save animals, anymore than I am for killing people to save anything else. I'm not for the killing of anything, but if things ARE going to be killed let them be killed with a minimum of suffering and let there be a reason. The testing of cosmetics on animals has always bothered me- because it is vanity, And killing animals for fur when we have synthetics- that too is gruesome. I also don't like the idea of eating other creatures that have brains and lungs and hearts quite similar to my own- it bothers me. I've known a lot of animals, and I am quite sure none of them wanted to be killed in a slaughter house and eaten. I wouldn't want to spend my last few seconds being slaughtered for food, and I imagine animals don't want to either. Empathy and reason lead me to a desire to treat my fellow creatures the way I would wish to be treated in their place.

To: coug who wrote (4256)	3/6/2001 10:53:29 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

I had a friend who was an avid duck hunter. He was always disgusted by the people who went on property to shoot tame birds. I hunted when I was a kid because my dad and his dad did. I realized pretty early that I didn't enjoy it. It wasn't "fun" to kill things so I stopped. I continued to shoot at the range for about 10 years. I've not been on a range for about 8 years but used to go almost every weekend. To me, hunting in a blind with decoys isn't a lot different that walking across a field blasting hand-fed game birds from a moral point of view. It is more difficult. Someone was relating a story about a turkey-shoot where the person who shot the head off a turkey took it home. That is pretty grotesque IMO even if it requires someone to be a good shot.