[TheForge] Meat eating and PETA..OT

Fri Jan 16 13:13:04 2004

My response to one of the PETA people is simply to drop an enraged alley cat in their shorts, and say Make friends.

Andy Vida <[email protected]> wrote:

Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer wrote:
> 
> They's jest folks with an oversized empathy gland who are willing
> proselytize.

They are arrogant and would shove their ways down your
throat, up your butt, and in every other bodily crevice
if they could get away with it. As I said, I agree with
most of what they expound, in principle, but their
Big Brother approach to making everyone toe their line
makes them nothing better than another gang of bullies.

> Most anyone who is absolutely sure they are right is as
> offensive.....well, almost

My litmus test for this is whether they live and let live.
PeTA doesn't, so they fail. I've been aware of many
other organizations more obnoxious and repugnant in 
their "values", yet they don't attempt to impose them
on others who don't welcome it. Disagree as I might,
I greatly appreciate their respectful willingness to
not offend others with their unwanted preaching, product,
whatever. 

I don't consider splattering fur-wearing people with red
dye or animal blood (there's some hippocrisy for you) to be
mere proselytization or a show of empathy. I would regard
such an act as an assault on my person and I would respond
accordingly. They were doing this in NY about 10 or 15
years ago. That none of them were killed is evidence of
peoples' generally tolerant nature about things.
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