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Originally posted by Craig Manoukian
There is nothing humane about death in nature. Just look at the way a dominate fish will pick to death another fish. Shredding it's fins and slowly bludgeoning it to death. |
Absolutely. Nature is not humane. That is because only man has the capacity to be humane.
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| I won't go into any other details but the animal kingdom is a very violent place. Where we get confused is when we try to humanize the animals around us, just can't be done. |
Absolutely. Being humans gives us the ability to understand that cruelty is wrong. We are "the moral animal".
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| Why do fish flee with such vigor when they are diseased or injured and we are just trying to catch them for their own good? |
The answer is very simple:
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| Where we get confused is when we try to humanize the animals around us, just can't be done. |
We can't humanize fishes. Fishes don't have the civil human understanding of medicine or health care. Man would flee as well if he didn't understand your hand was meant to help rather than harm.