Posted by Primer Gray (208.255.196.22) on January 30, 2003 at 17:40:49:
In Reply to: Re: To any vegans posted by Mikko (193.234.247.51) on January 30, 2003 at 11:29:03:
> > I'm 100% sure that I will cause harm in my life, and I will kill things. What I can do, however, is consciously choose to cause the LEAST amount of harm and death as I possibly can. I'm going to accidentally hit a rabbit or a squirrel with my car someday probably, and I'm going to step on ants without seeing they're there, and use plastics which is processed with animal fat, but if I took away every single little animal product in my life I would be out in the forest in a wood shed, and even then I would have had to take away habitat for animals and squashed part of the forest floor to do so.
> > I am not perfect, and not I, or anyone else on this world, can be completely harmless. But I can do what I can and give a little bit of effort instead of just saying, "Well, I can't do it all so I might as well do nothing".
> --Why do you feel a need to compensate for being a human, as if it was against some great natural order?
Survivor guilt...top of the food chain has it's responsibilities to all below us, ya know.