Subject: Re: RAF-eating instinctos
Hi Nature's First Law guys - Stephen, David and R.C.,
Please see my comments re your book in my post to Kirt today. I liked
your comments to the RAF eating instinctos and although they are quite
capable of speaking for themselves, I imagine one or more will answer
that we have the intelligence to make the weapons to kill animals so it's
natural, like a beaver building a dam. But beyond all that, it would
just seem to me so gruesomely awful to kill an animal, so repulsive a
process that it would be anti-instinctual. Of course it's apparent that
many societies have done/do this so I just don't know much except it's
not for me.
Subject: tools & such
Sandy wrote:
>...we have the intelligence to make the weapons to kill animals so it's
>>natural...
Yes, of course humans do have the intelligence to make/use weapons to
kill animals for self-defense or using sticks and stones for various
activites (we never said that they don't), but humans are simply not
biological hunters for the eating of meat. There is *absolutely nothing*
in our biological make-up that even suggests this (see Appendix B of our
book).
Subject: re: tools & such
> Sandy wrote:
> >...we have the intelligence to make the weapons to kill animals so
> >it's natural...
the entity calling itself Nature's First Law wrote:
> Yes, of course humans do have the intelligence to make/use weapons to
> kill animals for self-defense or using sticks and stones for various
> activities (we never said that they don't), but humans are simply not
> biological hunters for the eating of meat. There is *absolutely
> nothing* in our biological make-up that even suggests this (see
> Appendix B of our book).
I don't remember writing that's it's natural to kill. It's possible,
obviously, but most of us would have a real, gut aversion to killing
another being. So I just want to be clear, I do not think it's natural
just because it's possible. Because of our "superior" intelligence we
are able to do many things but much of them are not natural by which I
mean we have to overcome an instinctual fear to do them eg. fly in an
airplane, go to the dentist and so on.
Just to be sure there's no confusion, I am passionately opposed to eating
animals, it's simply unkind and, I feel sure, unnecessary.
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