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Why do we not apply human ethics and morality to other animals?

December 22nd, 2012 10 comments

Please think about it. We slaughter animals for sport and for food, the way these animals are treated is inhumane.

Most commonly I’ve gotten the excuse that we treat them like this because they act wildly on their own. This is true, but we should not lower ourselves to their standards. And another excuse is because they are not smart enough. Well, what separates them from mentally retarded children then? If intelligence is the factor, how smart do you have to be?

And people who say this often turn around and say people who exploit and mistreat other humans of lower intelligence are unjust and immoral. But why, to the elites you may just look like breakfast.

Generally speaking, moral values are most stringent for yourself; then people around you / close to you; then people more distant, etc. In other words: in general, people believe that the welfare of those closest to them is the most valuable.

For example: most people believe that their own economic well-being is more important than that of others, and so will compete for a better job rather than cede a better job to one of their competitors out of concern for that person’s economic well-being that is above one’s own. When competing for a job, most people place their own well-being first.

The same is true of sports: generally speaking, a sports fan considers the record of their local (favored) sports team to be more important than that of any alternate team, and so will root for their favored team.

The same is true of nations: a person of a nation considers the safety and welfare of people of that nation to be more important than the safety and welfare of the people of a other nations, and so will support military actions in defense of their nation and will desire that the soldiers of their own nation are victorious over soldiers of the enemy nation, or will support economic policies that benefit their own nation at the expense of the economic advantage of other nations.

So a person’s moral values are much like the ripples made by throwing a stone in a pond: highest and most dear near to the person (the stone), less valuable and less dear the farther away from the person. For this reason, people generally morally value the lives of people above the lives of all other creatures. People believe that people adult should have the right to mate – but not pets, who are routinely "fixed". People believe that people should have the right to freedom from slavery – but not work animals, who are forced by indoctrination and pain and food to work at the whim of people. Etc.

In other words, most people consider people to be more important and more worthy and more valuable – from a moral standpoint – than any other species on the planet. It is actually a quite natural outlook, as described above: the well-being of one’s "own" people is always more important than that of others (self more important than immediate family; immediate family more important than extended family; extended family more important than city; city more important than state; state more important than nation; nation more important than world; humanity more important than other species; etc. etc.)

Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com/

Weird Sports

September 2nd, 2011 No comments

There are a lot of crazy sports out there at present. It just appears to be receiving weirder and weirder. When you factor you have observed the weirdest sport doable, you will tune into a sports channel 1 day and see some thing that takes the cake (likely a cake-consuming contest). When not so lengthy ago it seemed strange to watch billiards on tv the extent factors have gone to in todays globe makes hitting a couple of balls about with pool cues appear extremely conservative. Why have factors come to this What is it about the way we live that makes us feel such crazy sports would be intriguing

1 such sport that essentially has its own show is that of hot dog consuming. This is certainly accurate. The show consists of 1 guy or girl standing at a podium with a plate full of hot dogs and attempting to eat as most as he can ahead of the time runs out. There is a crowd cheering the competitor on and commentators discussing techniques made use of by the sportsmen to obtain their desired aim with no receiving sick. Half of the challenge tends to land with the viewer, who will most likely be battling a case of nausea immediately after watching this show for too lengthy.

A further sport that has gained an ever growing quantity of reputation is that of poker. When there is no doubt that it is alot more intriguing to watch and calls for alot more skill and mental prowess than hot dog consuming, it is nonetheless strange to watch an hour lengthy show purely based on many people playing cards. In years to come, will we be watching the solitaire championships How will we know who is winning

These new sports are funny to watch, but they are also a bit disconcerting as properly. In ancient times, sport was frequently some thing that was essentially a life and death scenario for those playing and the reason sport was designed by the elites of a country was to preserve many people distracted from the challenges of their nation, such as the corruption of their government. Have sports honestly gotten any improved due to the fact then Okay, so nobodys receiving killed but many people are seriously damaging their well being if they are willing to eat as considerably as fifteen hot dogs inside the space of a couple of minutes. And mixed martial arts fighting have not even been mentioned.

It might possibly be doable that just like the ancient Romans, governments of at present like their many people to take a keen interest in sports at the expense of taking an interest in the way their country is run. Absolutely this is the case in Brazil, exactly where enormous levels of poverty and corruption are rife all through the political method. The response by those in energy is not to fix these challenges but to concentrate revenue and attention on receiving the soccer team to the Globe Cup just about every 4 years.

Possibly it is time we took a step back and looked at the way we treat sport in todays society. When a small entertainment can be a high quality factor, there is no will need to acquire an interest in a sport that is ridiculous or to shed concentrate on our lives and start out to feel sport is the most fundamental factor of all.