K.D. Lightner
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This whole topic makes me sick unto death. I wish I could feel that the human race is progressing, i.e. learning and growing, treating each other and other living creatures that grace this planet, with respect and care. For, if we are not evolving towards something greater, then what are we doing?
It is one thing to have to kill animals for food. Like some Native American Indians would have done, apologize to the creature you have to kill in order to survive.
It is another to use animals for "sport." Yes, it has gone on since humans first appeared on the planet, and people have also used and killed each other for "sport."
Remember the photo of the Roman arena a few posts back?
Remember the witch burnings of the middle ages, the impaling of subjects and enemies by rulers and leaders? (I learned that when Vlad the Impaler was imprison, he found mice and impaled them on sticks)
And remember this: when people or animals were impaled, tortured, hanged, mutilated, crucified, forced to fight each other, or executed in any way, the event drew crowds of people. Why?
Is it the blood lust of hunters and gatherers gone horribly awry?
If not, what is it?!
karol
It is one thing to have to kill animals for food. Like some Native American Indians would have done, apologize to the creature you have to kill in order to survive.
It is another to use animals for "sport." Yes, it has gone on since humans first appeared on the planet, and people have also used and killed each other for "sport."
Remember the photo of the Roman arena a few posts back?
Remember the witch burnings of the middle ages, the impaling of subjects and enemies by rulers and leaders? (I learned that when Vlad the Impaler was imprison, he found mice and impaled them on sticks)
And remember this: when people or animals were impaled, tortured, hanged, mutilated, crucified, forced to fight each other, or executed in any way, the event drew crowds of people. Why?
Is it the blood lust of hunters and gatherers gone horribly awry?
If not, what is it?!
karol