Just to add another perspective..and BTW, I know bunny from some of the
vegetarian lists -- Hi Bunny!! -- but you know, Buddhists have an
entirely different view, one in which the notion of soul that the
Judeo-Christians have, is non-esistent. Really. Many of us who are new
to Buddhism don't realize that right away, but nope, no souls in
Buddhism, not the sort your guys are arguing about.
Nobody can tell me my cat doesn't reason, or animals standing in line at
the slaughterhouse and hear their fellows screaming, can't reason. No
siree...they reason pretty good, and pretty damn quickly, too.
my 1 1/2 cent...
Hugs,
Connie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 98-09-15 18:37:48 EDT, you write:
>
> << Never mind...if I
> keep up my indoctrination tactics, these creatures may learn to start
>
> behaving like objects governed by insticts and not sentient beings.
>
> Marguerite >>
>
> You have a house full! I love rabbits - we have a family in our yard
> - the
> kids love watching them -
> But This is proof that you really do not understand me or at least
> what I was
> saying about the ability to reason - I never said that animals do not
> have
> sentiments - that is part of their soul - I said they do not know why
> they
> have sentiment - or do they? This is reasoning to the fullest extent -
>
> thinking through the Who, What, Where, When and Why of it - the
> reasoning
> behind their soul - can other animals besides humans do this? Say for
> example
> dolphins - full of personality (part of the soul) yet they can not
> stop us
> from polluting their oceans - why? If they can't reason within their
> brains -
> this - humans put pollution in our ocean which hurts us and now we
> have to
> stop them - they CAN NOT stop us without this who, what, where and
> when and
> why reasoning ability humans have - unfortunate at all that we can't
> find more
> reasons to stop polluting their oceans - however, they CAN NOT reason
> in
> order to stop us - they may feel they are being polluted and trapped
> in nets-
> they may feel hurt and trapped about it however they can't put 2 and 4
>
> together - you understand that?
>
> Animals have wonderful personalities - I had many pets - cats, dogs
> - they
> are unique creatures with unique spirits - Never said they were not
> sentiment
> creatures - I said they were not reasoning creatures -
>
> Love,
> Angela
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Connie Sunday [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The best index to a person's character is
(a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and
(b) how he treats people who can't fight back. -Abagail Van Buren
