OT meanderings... WAS: Re: [TheForge] Re: Abana Tape rentals (yak)

[Demon Buddha]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 08:59:30 -0800, Darrell <darrell@machinemaster.com> 
wrote:

> I don't know any one that is anti environmental. I AM one of MANY that 
> are
> anti environmentalist.

	I too am no fan of the watermelon marxist.

> When you forget who is at the top of the food chain
> and ascribe RIGHTS to the food you end up with some pretty stupid
> regulations.

	Not quite that simple for me.  I have no problem with the
	idea of animal rights per se.  The predicative elements
	for me, regarding whether "correct" is if they prevent
	me from doing things that are reasonable.  I have a big 	problem with a 
law that prevents me from going out to shoot 	a deer for dinner, though 
that we eat other animals to sustain
	ourselves does not give us license to treat them in any manner 	we may 
happen to choose.  Demanding that feed critters
	be raised and kept under conditions where they may be reasonably
	regarded as "happy" (to use a horribly loaded term) is not
	in itself unreasonable.  I am wholly against the use of animals 	in 
testing of any sort whatsoever.  It is a disgusting practice,
	much like dragging them into our wars.  In my personal opinion,
	no human worth his weight in bat guano would ever want to do such
	a thing.  This is only one man's opinion.  OTOH, we need to eat
	and have the "right" to eat whatever we desire, including animals.
	How we treat those animals in the preparation to eat is something
	I take great issue with in many cases.

	In a nutshell, I have no problem with keeping them as pets or
	eating them, but causing them agony is for me absolutely
	unacceptable and were I to witness such acts I would probably
	take immediate steps to stop it.

	The animal rights knob-heads are just freaks that would not
	recognize the middle path if it bit their nuts off.  As I
	said in an earlier post, American politics is a place of nothing
	but extremes.  There is very little sense and balance there.
	Of all the nations on this planet this is the one where that
	ought not be so.