BibleQA - Animal Rights Discussion
Following are my responses to an email I received challenging me on my views regarding animal rights at http://www.dianedew.com/animals.htm
> N. Desmond wrote:
> > Animals in circuses are abused...made to do
> > unnatural things like standing on their heads,
> > jumping through hoops of fire, standing on balls
Human clowns and circus actors perform the same acts. It's not abuse, but a display of physical talent and endurance.
> > all for the greed of circus heads and the
> > amusement of the public.
Human trapeze artists, clowns, and others in the circus perform "for the greed of circus heads." Doesn't make what they do immoral.
> > Tell me, please, why you can feel so lightly
> > about a circus or carnival that would force a
> > tiger or lion to jump through a hoop of fire,
> > when naturally he would run from it in terror?
So you're saying that learning to face our fears is not good?
> > elephants are goaded with bull prods, beaten,
> > chained
An elephant's skin is thick and tough - it does not feel the same as humans.
> > stalling a tiger into a cage where he can't
> > even take one step
That is a temporary confinement. We "confine" our infants the same, when we place them in a car seat.
> > Animals go literally mad from their
> > surroundings.
How do you know this? Have you talked with them?
> > They often die sick and alone.
So do many elderly humans. Do you visit them in nursing homes where they are dropped off an forgotten? Why don't you protest their
plight?
> > don't beat it or harm in any way! Love and
> > care for it. It is a living being.
So is the AIDS virus, as well as bacteria, "a living being." As are vegetables, fruit, trees... Do you protest their being destroyed,
or killed, etc.?
> > I am very adamant and thoroughly support
> > any animal rights activists.
Even those who kill humans (i.e., hunters) in protest against treatment of animals?