09-22-2015, 01:48 AM
(09-21-2015, 10:46 PM)Diana Wrote:(09-21-2015, 07:18 PM)Aion Wrote: Do you think a deer shot and killed by a hunter feels differently than a deer being torn apart by a wolf? I can tell you which death is likely quicker and cleaner. What about bow-hunting? Or is technology 'unnatural'? I am genuinely curious of your thoughts on the matter.
I know that in some cases predators can be brutal. But so can bow hunting or any hunting be.
As far as technology, if you want to call bow hunting technology, no, I don't think it's unnatural given humanity's ability to create things. The Internet is not "unnatural" for instance in this context.
The difference between the predator/prey world and humans hunting is that humans don't need to (as I said with the exception of rare instances such as the Inuit).
This is how I feel about it, though it is fiction:
Aren't predators brutal more often than not? How else do you kill something with crude weapons like teeth and claws?
So who exactly decides that need or necessity? My problem with most studies is that they make sweeping generalizations about the human body. I just don't believe there is a 'standard' and so any attempt to make a general statement of necessity will be short-sighted. I don't say this to refute the suggestions, just that this is my issue with the apparent science which supposedly 'proves' the lack of necessity.
You see, I am working hard to balance my compassion between humans and animals. I don't think it's as simple as avoidance of harm for myself because I see it that wherever I am avoiding harm in one way I am probably causing it in another. Some here have already decided for themselves which harm is more of a priority to prevent. I am still finding that balance.
The thing is that I feel like I'm supposed to want to avoid harm for the sake of 'evolution', but it doesn't make sense to me to do that unless it is actually something I genuinely feel directed towards of my own volition and the truth is, I don't. Maybe I am truly self-serving, but the fact is that I don't see it as being a genuine service unless it is from the heart and my current philosophy isn't shaped in a way that does that. This, if I was to change simple because I feel I'm 'supposed' to, I think I would lose polarity because I would neither be serving the other genuinely nor serving myself and so there will be no charge.
Maybe in the end I am just an exceptionally self-service individual. I guess it's not so bad being evil.