Re: Gluteus Maximus

From: Gluteus Maximus (legion_at_ceaserus.com)
Date: 08/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:19:10 +0100

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:07:13 +0100, John Edgar
<ejwaddr-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:52:17 +0100, Gluteus Maximus
><legion@ceaserus.com> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:31:32 +1000, "Helen" <abc@efg.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>>Enjoy your posts
>>
>>Why thank you. There are many who feel the same about wildlife, we
>>just get to see a very vocal minority of kooks who brag about killing.
>>
>>> - its good to see posts by people who care for animals - in
>>>particular those creatures who are not the "warm and cuddly" kind- such as
>>>fish, lobsters etc. They rarely get a mention; but have feelings just as
>>>much as the cute animals.
>>>
>>
>>Not to mention the incy wincy spiders and bugs. Why kill and destroy
>>anything when you don't need to?
>>
>>Like eating meat, it's something we have all been condition to accept
>>without thinking, killing slugs, snails, spiders, foxes, deer. All
>>completely unnecessary as many of us with gardens can testify.
>>
>>Better for us, the environment and wildlife.
>>
>>All animals have feelings. Nothing wants to die and why should it.
>>
>>We should all stand up and be counted.
>>
>I don't agree. To attribute human feeling to insensate creatures is
>simplistic in the extreme.

Nothing to do with human feelings. Just feelings. Simplistic is good
in this day and age. The best things in life are the simplest.

> Your average spider, cockroach, fox, hen or
>eland has no feeling whatsoever as to death, the environment, or
>wildlife. They just are. These are human concepts.

Crap. Nothing wants to die and often tries very hard to avoid death.

Even if they were only human feelings, so what.

>If I want to eat meat, then I will.

Proud boast. No doubt pedophiles, bank robbers and other psychotic
arseholes make the same claim?

>It is not a question of
>conditioning. I just need a bacon butty every so often. Who
>conditioned the lions to eat meat anyway?

They eat to survive and their diet is based on that. You stuff your
face with meat because you're a spoilt brat, because of this animals
suffer needlessly.