In a stunningly moronic display of moral equivalency
the Democratic Underground Lefties can't even agree that
human slavery is worse than eating animals! I wish I was making this up but
here is a little quotey quote for you:
Just so, humans who define themselves by religion
or culture or nationality or skin color think that their suffering can never be
compared, no matter how factually, with any other human or animal's suffering.
To do so makes them feel belittled, reduced. But perhaps that's just our
primitive biology crying out to protect and save our own kind, the more narrowly
defined the better, and the rest be damned. I reject that. Or I try to. Only
supremacism makes us think that "our kind," our narrow view of ourselves as
Protestants, Muslims, white, black, a woman, a man, a human being, is more
important than the rest. But a broader definition of ourselves is simply that we
are all animals.
Note that this yahoo actually equates
rascism with feeling superior to animals here. I thought that surely there would
be a large backlash of common sense from the rest of the DU feverswampers but
not to be... Many of them agreed with the poster and PETA that using animals for
anything is morally equivalent to enslaving human beings and none of them could
really bring themselves to condemn it (well excpet a few Freepers who lurk there
to piss off the DU).
One more quotage:
If it offends people so greatly to be compared to
other sentient beings who feel pain and suffer just as humans do... well, I
think they are getting right to the heart of the matter.
Knock knock puddinheads... this is why you keep losing...