You’re better at death than I, at about 16 I was given a chicken and a machete, all was going well until I peered into that singular eye... never look in the eyes. But, as in all things, memento mori.
if the moral rationale here is ‘death is a part of life’, then can’t we regard the murder of human-animals as merely expediting the inevitable, and therefore morally permissible? and if the ‘stoic’, might is right quip is valid, does that not justify the subjugation of any people group or person in history because they were outsmarted?
I think you've missed the point entirely here as I'm not saying my father is right. These are a collection of personal essays, not philosophical reasoning to justify actions. Also, we are not cannibals, my people have been subjected to both colonisation and communism and I am not saying either was right or deserved, it just happened. What is a 'human-animal'?
yes i have to apologise, my misreading stemmed from someone else’s misreading (they posted your article on their story to validate (?) their view that killing a chicken takes ‘balls’ and is a good way to de-stress), so i read it through that filter. after reading your comment and rereading your essay i realise my impetuous comment should’ve just been directed at them. sorry!
You’re better at death than I, at about 16 I was given a chicken and a machete, all was going well until I peered into that singular eye... never look in the eyes. But, as in all things, memento mori.
First rule of killing is don't look into their eyes until you've already committed.
if the moral rationale here is ‘death is a part of life’, then can’t we regard the murder of human-animals as merely expediting the inevitable, and therefore morally permissible? and if the ‘stoic’, might is right quip is valid, does that not justify the subjugation of any people group or person in history because they were outsmarted?
I think you've missed the point entirely here as I'm not saying my father is right. These are a collection of personal essays, not philosophical reasoning to justify actions. Also, we are not cannibals, my people have been subjected to both colonisation and communism and I am not saying either was right or deserved, it just happened. What is a 'human-animal'?
yes i have to apologise, my misreading stemmed from someone else’s misreading (they posted your article on their story to validate (?) their view that killing a chicken takes ‘balls’ and is a good way to de-stress), so i read it through that filter. after reading your comment and rereading your essay i realise my impetuous comment should’ve just been directed at them. sorry!
Understood and apology accepted.