Wednesday, March 23, 2011
The Value of a Life
When a person is killed purposefully, it is considered murder. However, when someone goes hunting, they kill many animals with the full knowledge 0f what they have done and the opinion that it is not murder. Why would people do that when they wouldn't to humans? Many say that animals like deer are overpopulated, but they aren't nearly overpopulated as us. What do you think about an animal's life versus a human's life?
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I think that killing an animal is murder. They are just as alive as we are. Do you really think that the only think that the only think that determines the value of a life is mass?
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I think killing animals without reason is wrong. However I believe that the difference between hunting and murder is sentience. Though animals can feel fear death, we as humans can think about and feel it on a higher level. As well as the fact that we believe an animal's real purpose on earth is to stay alive and reproduce, and, because humans tend to be egotistical creatures, to provide for us, while we like to believe our purpose is something more. Another difference is a simple respect for one's own species, which is why it is cannibalism for a human to eat a human, but not for a human to eat an animal.
ReplyDeleteIt's like what Cam said in class about respect. Because we hold animals so low beneath us, it is not considered murder, and it never will be.
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