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Originally Posted by disney_mommy
Sparrow, I was totally in agreement with you until you made the above statment (bolding is mine).
I am against the outright killing. What gives me the right to say "Hmm, a chicken would be good to eat, I think I'll go kill it."? It doesn't matter to me whether it suffers or not. Because I am a superior being to the chicken, it is my responsibility to protect its right to live.
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Yep, I did originally have a sentence acknowledging the 'what gives you the right' issue might need addressing - that's why I used 'I'm not sure' as a possible escape clause for me
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But, what interests me about the idea of killing without any suffering, is the question of what harm it actually does. I'm not sure it does any (but I may be wrong
); but it's probably too hypothetical to ever occur in reality anyway.
(Although there was a recent documentary on humane executions that came up with a method that seemed to produce a pleasurable death - the victim goes out in a state of euphoria. One critic said they objected to the lack of suffering involved.)