Comments | veganpeople: what do you do when you're told your dying wish is too horrible to grant?

lauren_k in veganpeople

what do you do when you're told your dying wish is too horrible to grant?

Dec 01, 2003 14:21

x-posted to animal_rights

start your own organization that will promote said horror well after you're dead. (caution: the main image is really sad ( Read more... )

arguments-ethics, arguments-hunting

Comments 20

skirril December 2 2003, 12:02:34 UTC

I'm speechless...

Just speechless.

Can't blame the kids, can't even blame the parents much.

But a society that supports that is sick.

vgnwtch December 2 2003, 14:03:02 UTC

You know, as a teenager, I was in the Air Cadets, a sort of trainee junior RAF organisation, where I learned to shoot rifles (and even, once, a sub machine gun). Target practise in the drill hall was tons of fun. I got my marksman badge. I enjoyed the skill of it and the competition-with-self. But it never crossed my mind to want to shoot a living creature. Actually, the air cadets was a blast (learned to fly a glider and an old Chipmunk training plane, did "night exercises" now and then where we ran around in camo gear trying to steal the other team's "commanding officer", went hiking, etc.), but it was clear to me that actual armed service was not an option for me.

So I can understand wanting to shoot. I mean, my (probably highly unlikely to ever be fulfilled) ambition is to learn to shoot a mediaeval English warbow (later known as the longbow). But shooting targets is a whole different ballgame to shooting living creatures.

abark December 2 2003, 16:23:12 UTC

What vgnwtch is really saying is: Don't bother ever trying to break into my house!

vgnwtch December 2 2003, 17:00:36 UTC

HAHAHAHA!! I only have a bronze age replica spear and a few throwing axes. And knives.

Hey, hey... come back!

anonymous December 3 2003, 01:34:00 UTC

Killing animals takes a certain kind of mentality, doesn't it. When my dad was a teenager the opportunity came along to go on a hunt, and the one animal he killed, a bird, sickened and ashamed him so much that he never hunted again.

thanks everyone lauren_k December 3 2003, 16:57:19 UTC

what a heap of great comments. thanks everybody. between your suggestions and the same conversation i had with my husband, here's what i'm thinking ( ... )