That's the impression I got too, when I read these posts. Yes, the OP does this practice himself but I didn't get the impression that he said everyone else /should do it/--however, I did get the impression that many people were telling him he shouldn't and the reason was arbitrary in terms of talking about how it's for monetary gain vs how much he loved the animals vs the purpose of culling them--but no one really had a problem when the same principle applied to feeder animals.
Perhaps we were debating about completely different things to begin with.
No one here (unless somehow one of us is like totally awesomely omnipotent) can say there's one absolute truth--someone's truth could be someone else's lie, since the moment is gone and past, it comes down to "he says so because this happened" and "she says so because this happened."
There is also no right or wrong--there is only /choice/. We say something is "right" based on our own principles and values, but that isn't always the same as someone else's--who is anyone to say their principles are more right than another's?
Po-opinions, pro-decisions, without having someone tell you you're wrong or horrid or disgusting because they don't agree with your practices, isn't that what it means to have freedom?
So you would deny others the right to these strictures and boundaries?
Interesting.
I may not be very smart, but what if I am?
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