While having an online “discussion” the other day, a non-vegan FB compatriot actually had the gall to make this very claim — he actually had the audacity to claim that he was doing the deer & the elk he hunted a favor by killing them, because he was saving them from enduring a gruesome death in their older days thereby … I realize that many of you reading along need no help in comprehending how deluded & morally flawed this rationalization is, but for those who don’t quite get it (it IS, after all, quite the obscure assumption), please consider:

First, that quite a few animals – just like quite a few humans – die peaceful deaths in the wild, and are only “scavenged” after their smooth passing. As such, for hunters to rob them of that chance solely because THEY have decided (What arrogance!) to put those animals out of their POTENTIAL future misery is morally suspect, to say the least …

Secondly, even in those cases where great suffering would occur at the end of an animal’s life, it is per se Wrong Action to use that violent end as a cheap excuse to execute that animal in its younger days – essentially erasing all the beautiful moments he or she would most certainly have experienced and enjoyed between the hunter’s proud murder and his or her own natural death …

Indeed, if any of us were forced to choose between being allowed to live our full lives and die painful deaths in our older years and being murdered by a hunter in our youth, I know full well that you — like I — would CHOOSE LIFE – and so would every one of those hunters as well!

In essence, there is no excuse whatsoever for causing another sentient being to suffer for our own personal pleasure, my Friends. Hunters in the West do not need to hunt to survive. Quite to the contrary, they would all live longer and healthier lives if they gave up their cruel hobby and went vegan instead.

Amen … Let it be so.

Filed under: Sanctifying Sentience by Scaughdt