Comments - Australian Live Export ~ A letter from Jeff Perz of the Alice Springs Vegan Society - Animal Rights Zone2024-03-29T06:15:23Zhttp://arzone.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=4715978%3ABlogPost%3A44320&xn_auth=noI agree with the essential ar…tag:arzone.ning.com,2011-06-08:4715978:Comment:444192011-06-08T03:17:17.914ZTim Gierhttp://arzone.ning.com/profile/TimGier
<p>I agree with the essential argument I think is being presented in this letter: All slaughter of other animals is morally wrong, and it would be even under most controlled conditions. Other animals are the sorts of beings who ought not to be confined and killed to satisfy our wants and pleasures.</p>
<p>At the same time though, I wonder if, as a tactical move, it would make more sense to validate the outrage that so many Australians appear to be experiencing right now. What I mean is, this…</p>
<p>I agree with the essential argument I think is being presented in this letter: All slaughter of other animals is morally wrong, and it would be even under most controlled conditions. Other animals are the sorts of beings who ought not to be confined and killed to satisfy our wants and pleasures.</p>
<p>At the same time though, I wonder if, as a tactical move, it would make more sense to validate the outrage that so many Australians appear to be experiencing right now. What I mean is, this letter, and other comments I have seen elsewhere like it, appear to be saying to people "What you have witnessed with your own eyes, in all its gory horror, is not relatively more horrific than what goes on every day. This isn't extraordinary, it is routine." Now, from what I have read, the 4 Corners footage shows scenes which even slaughterhouse workers have said is horrific, and people have told me that it is shocking indeed, even for those familiar with videos of what goes on in slaughterhouses. So to tell people who are shocked that they ought not to be shocked would seem to deny those people their legitimate feelings. I don't know that that's the best approach when what we are trying to do is change people's hearts and minds. Perhaps I am reading more into this than what was intended?</p>