Silent Sword said:
Have you ever been fishing??
You use a live worm, it is not dead before you hook it.
I was referring back to what I read ages ago on the other forum, between 2 members, one who was looked up to who may or may not be here now. They said to avoid the worm suffering, even though "it is just a worm", it is better to kill it quickly before piercing it with the hook, and the other member said that they smash the worm's head quickly before using it.
Ravenheart666 said:
Is it that maybe ,animals may have ''less sophisticated'' souls and therefore much more interconnected with Nature's energies and also easier to ''revitalize'' upon reincarnation? I'm not saying in any way that their suffering is less damaging or painful, but may not affect them in the long term as let's say a human or equivalent would. Also not saying that their existence is any less meaningful than a human's. Just saying, maybe they don't have the advantage of long term growing and cultivating very personal past life experiences,
I think you mean simpler Souls. Simple does not mean less-worthy, less-important, etc.
yet , I just can't exclude the obvious physical and instinctual advantages animals are just born with. The sheer power and agility , or the advantages of their particular attributes
Exactly. While they might have simpler Souls than we have, they are still stronger in other ways, one of those ways being the obvious Physical, or the other obvious speed.
No, I don't think so.
Powstanie Pogańskie said:
Dahaarkan said:
I dunno fancy maybe it comes down to the fact that we are not on the same level as wild animals and therefore we shouldn't behave like apes?
It's humanity's nature to BE humane, hence the term...humane...humanity...get it? Because unlike animals we are not totally controlled by basic instincts and impulses, and have a more advanced soul and deeper understanding of things.
This is a dangerous question to ask and I'll warn you that people who entertain and feed thoughts such as these usually go on a path to re-write their own nature. The final product is pedophiles, psychopaths and other forms of deranged idiots who have totally abandoned human nature and become well, inhumane. Hence the term.
Pigs roll around in their own shit that doesn't justify you as a human being rolling around in your own shit too. This applies to any comparison as there is no comparison. Animals exist on a totally different level and what is natural and "normal" for them does not apply to human beings.
All of this is true, but just for the sake of argument, let's pretend that Human beings genuinely are on the same level as wild animals. At least in terms of assigned value or some similar metric.
Before we were visited by Godly beings who advanced our DNA and helped us skip evolution, you could say that we were on the same level of advancement. (This harkens back to "the garden of eden", where we "were" so innocent and ignorant.) Back then, before we were advanced, would it be "permissible" (to use a reasoning, logical, moral, ethical, higher-Animal term) for us to behave that way? I don't think it would be 'beliefs'; it would be instinct, but as other primates, they do have language and hierarchy and cheekiness, etc., so instinct might not be the correct term. Maybe a word to describe half-a-level between instinct and reason/understanding. (Like a mezzanine being half-a-level, or intermediate level, between two floors in a house.)
It still wouldn't justify animal cruelty because it's in our nature, generally anyway, to not do that shit. Even without considering the fact that our natures and understanding of the world are more evolved compared to wild animals, we tend towards empathy for other creatures.
People get this idea in their heads "well Humans aren't any more valuable compared to any other lifeform or species on this planet",
We're not "only Human". Even the oldest-living species on Earth, millions of years older than us - including dinosaurs who existed for about 165 million years - didn't build a rocket to Moon, Mars and More. "Responsibility to the responsible", I don't mean to repeat mindlessly and thoughtlessly, but yeah.
but then decide based on this false conclusion that the way Human beings act is wrong. It's a demented standard that they only seem to apply to us but no other animal.
If a bird at the seaside comes and steals your hotdog, you should have the 'right' to smack it upside its beak! Lol. It might think twice next time. (Alpha versus beta, etc. It's my food, so feck off!) Similarly, fishermen have realised that certain sea life have got wise to their fishing/net-casting, so sea life take these opportunities to steal the fish. It's amazing that we must pay shekels for fish, while Animals (lower Animals) can steal it and get away with it.
Humans are equal in value to any other living thing, but we get condemned for doing shit like building cities and eating meat while other animals get a pass because hey that's just their nature. But things that are in our nature, well that's not good and that's not okay because these things can have negative consequences. It reveals what's actually an anti-Human bias on the part of people who reach this conclusion about the value of Human life, and some will outright fess up to this and admit that they consider Human beings to be less valuable than other animals.
That's what I might have been too subtle about in my other reply, regarding Animals being free to roam during the (((coronavirus lockdown))).
All in all I think all the replies here have been fairly on point and satisfactory.
Yeah, you said that right. I'm glad about the replies.
Some of the replies have actually helped me in a different way. I was not looking for any help here; rather, as some of you might know I like to ask these types of questions, partly to challenge and partly to make people think, and also partly for, say, those coming from the evil of islam, for example... but it's also good that I did actually get something helpful personally out of it, so thanks to youse!