(November 4, 2021 at 9:08 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(November 4, 2021 at 7:05 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote: We don't have deer season here because we have no feral deer. We do have farmed deer, and the meat is hideously expensive.
I think we have duck season.
Doesn't bother me because I'm not fond of the taste of game meat. Nor do I share or understand the atavistic pleasure hunters seem to get from killing things.
Of course, I think I would soon learn to hunt or even kill chickens if it was the only way I could have meat to eat. Until that time I'll buy meat the supermarket in its neat little packages..
Some one here recently commented on a young woman with fashionably torn jeans and a sign as advocating an "effete cause" Finally, some one whose attitude seems similar to mine. Intolerant old fuck that I am, I think PETA are a bunch of little old ladies of both sexes who care more about animals than people.
There are two countries which come to mind in which vegetarianism is especially common; India and China, especially in rural areas. As far as I can tell, for a great many people in those countries this is simply because they cannot afford meat . Consequently, I see vegetarianism in affluent countries such as my own as a little pretentious.
A secular humanist, I'm unable to see animals as more important than people. The claims on the privvy purse are many and my finances limited. Consequently I am only able to support charities which help people. Although, I have always obtained my dogs from animal welfare. My present dog, a Jack Russell, cost me $700. He's my fifth since 1976.
No life is more important to other life. If you have no compunction to squashing a cockroach, do you think that cockroach gives a shit about spreading a disease to you?
Humans ARE important to other humans for sure. But in the history of our planet, our planet doesn't give a shit about a cockroach or human.
Our care for other human beings is relative and abstract. How could it be otherwise? If we cared emotionally about indefinite numbers of anonymous others we would be poor and crazy.
Have you ever noticed from the news how the lives of say African children are not as valuable as American children except in the abstract?
I prefer to keep things as personal as possible. MY life is more important to me than an indefinite number of lower order beings, from microbes to orangutans, even to other human beings who may in fact be far more valuable to society than I.
