12-06-2009, 10:53 PM
(12-06-2009, 10:24 PM)IMaDick Wrote: some animals are food animals some animals are fur,leather and hyde animals, some animals are domestic and make good pets and companions, some are work animals, and humans are the end users in most cases of all the different classes ,stop being a hypocrite about the subject.
It's HIDE not HYDE (I wouldn't bother, but that's the second time).
You are categorizing these groups of animals according to their value to humans. Other species have an intrinsic value unto themselves, which does not depend on their value to our species. However, regardless of 'value', the fact that we are capable of both causing great suffering to other species and capable of surviving without doing so, gives us a moral obligation to take the 'high road', a 'noblesse oblige' which is one of the things that does, in fact, separate us 'spiritually' from other animals.
I find it ironic that you argue to toss aside one of the few things that actually supports your argument, though it supports it in a spiritual sense, not a biological one.
The fact that most of us are hypocrites in some form or other, does not change the fact that wearing fur for vanity's sake is morally wrong.