Amazing Objects: The Human Brain

[akirlu]

You just have to bow in awe to the sort of blithe compartmentalization that enables a person to worry about "vegan" shoes on the one hand, while keeping obligate carnivores as pets on the other. Spending your money on the remains of slaughtered animals is apparently okay so long as it's 'for' the cat rather than 'for' you.

Then there's worrying about whether your fruit juice is colored with the carapaces of beetles, on the one hand, while eating bread and drinking beer made from grain that was industrially harvested and not organically grown. Lesson: killing bugs and other animals is fine as long as its incidental to what you're doing, rather than deliberately, mindfully, and humanely done.

Feh. This is the kind of fuckwittery that keeps PETA viable.

Comments

[auntysocial.livejournal.com]

I think the really hard core members of PETA don't believe in keeping pets, either. Not many people know this though. They want to kill all the pit bulls.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Good thing I didn't then. Especially since Charlie is no such thing.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Hard core PETA members are total froot loops, frankly. Not surprising, given that Ingrid Newkirk got her start in "animal advocacy" euthanizing healthy, savable animals. The PETA position on pits is completely detached from facts and reality, which is about par for their particular course.

[auntysocial.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[greyorm.livejournal.com]

This is why I'm vegetarian and not vegan. Because there's "sane" and then there's "what the #%$@?!"

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, I think the cats are Charlie's pets.

[mac-arthur-park.livejournal.com]

Yes. This.

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Yup, re hard-core PETA members, IMO.

But then, though I _respect_ all life, I don't worship it, and I can't twist my mind around the idea of killing animals that have evolved to be dependent upon humans, rather than just neutering them and giving them a reasonably happy life (and a much longer one than they would have if left to fend for themselves), merely because some of them require meat products to survive.

[houseboatonstyx.livejournal.com]

"as long as its incidental to what you're doing, rather than deliberately"

That distinction has been around for many centuries longer than PETA has, and on many wider issues.

PETA fuckwittery

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

Oh, no. PETA is much more grandiosely and baroquely fuckwitted.