Jul 9, 2008
The the fine People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have enlisted some hollywood star power to offer tight reasoning for animal rights.
I think that we should tell the Coyotes about animal rights...obviously we need to tell them that they should not eat other animals...particularly cats. The tightly reasoned logic will have me ridding myself of all leather products and forsaking meat forever...nah, scratch that - I'm still not convinced.
I have a few simple questions for the radical animal rights activist:
- If human beings are but animals ourselves, why do we have a moral duty to care for other animals - they all do eat one another you know.
- If we DO have a moral duty to care for creation, including kind treatment of animals...are we not distinct from mere animals?
- Yet a purely naturalistic worldview does not support human beings as being distinct or afforded any special status from other animals. So why can't we do whatever we want to survive and pass on our genes? Including using baby seal skins as coats?
It seems to me that only a view that holds that human beings are created in the image of God as co-rulers and stewards with him over creation could have a moral responsibility for how we treat other creatures. I remain unconvinced that certain animal rights positions are coherent, let alone worthy of such radicalism as exhibited by the good people of PETA.
Comments
true... I like the line where she says (of her cats saying to her), "Mom help me...!" Too much...
Posted by: zach harrod | July 9, 2008 02:47 AM
We have cats, we love them, we consider them part of the family. The ASPCA seems to be the more rational, less radical choice for believers who feel called to more responsible "...dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
As to PETA... well, like my grandpa used to say, "If God didn't want us eatin animal, He wouldn't have made 'em out of meat."
Posted by: Mike Radcliffe | July 9, 2008 11:05 AM
Mike's Cats - "Daddy help me!" That is a funny quote - animals made out of meat. You are one cat loving, insensitive brotha!
Posted by: Reid | July 9, 2008 02:34 PM
I wasn't going to get into the cats talking stuff, but you do get to understanding their "language," both vocal and non-vocal. (careful not to write verbal)
Though I would never equate a pet to a child, they do treat you as mommy/daddy or other "family" members at times. It may be completely instinctual, but there is certainly an attachment and affection of pets towards their people.
Our cats do things to and for us which if feral, they would do for others in their clowder, their mother cat, or their young.
I won't eat my cats because cat is too tough and stringy. :-)
I prefer weasel, the other yellow meat.
Posted by: Mike Radcliffe | July 9, 2008 07:00 PM
That's why granola hippies don't wear deodorant, might kill organisms like bacteria. Try this, when you are feeling superior, look under the hood of your hybrid, feel good, pious Prius and count the number of animals stuck in the radiator, some still partially alive and flapping a broken wing.
Posted by: greg | July 9, 2008 07:46 PM