Whilst I merrily and enthusiastically kill flies, as a human I'm jam-packed with hypocricy and double standards and when put in a position once to put a baby bird I'd spent several days ham-fistedly attempting to save from an orphan's death out of its misery, I found it very difficult to go ahead with. It eventually died while I was humming and hawing (for about 18 hours), presumably in the misery I'd been tasked with ending, which didn't make me feel good either. Tough decisions.
I do feel that it's a bit disrespectful to eat meat and yet never kill something you eat - if the poor bastard's going to give up its life to provide a tasty meal, surely the least we owe it is to look it in the eye as we do it in. Thus it was that I found myself staring fixedly at a crab as I lowered it into boiling water. I didn't much like that either, but it tasted pretty good. Now I'm surrounded by people whose favourite weekend activity is shooting fuzzy deer with a variety of rifles, muzzle-loaders and bows-and-arrows (!) and am unsure how to reconcile that with my attitudes on doing the decent thing to your dinner.
In Utopia, all slaughtering and butchery is done by slaves and prisoners, so the citizens don't have to sully their psyches with all this. Human double standards being nothing new, obviously.
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Date: 2005-11-27 04:08 pm (UTC)I do feel that it's a bit disrespectful to eat meat and yet never kill something you eat - if the poor bastard's going to give up its life to provide a tasty meal, surely the least we owe it is to look it in the eye as we do it in. Thus it was that I found myself staring fixedly at a crab as I lowered it into boiling water. I didn't much like that either, but it tasted pretty good. Now I'm surrounded by people whose favourite weekend activity is shooting fuzzy deer with a variety of rifles, muzzle-loaders and bows-and-arrows (!) and am unsure how to reconcile that with my attitudes on doing the decent thing to your dinner.
In Utopia, all slaughtering and butchery is done by slaves and prisoners, so the citizens don't have to sully their psyches with all this. Human double standards being nothing new, obviously.