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Enneagram Type 5 Board Archive Re: animal compassion?Posted by Maverick on December 06, 2000 at 12:49:35: In Reply to: animal compassion? posted by lynn on December 03, 2000 at 15:30:06: : this is just a matter of curiosity....it would seem to me that many 5s are the type that go against the ideas of PCness and rationalizr all kinds of things.. but at the same time, it would also seem to me that 5s are likely to be many of the people who do agree with the important ideas of being PC (but not just for the sake of being PC) and also, more specifically, things like animal rights. Are any fives here vegetarian? for moral or health reasons? Any vegans? I guess I dont have anything specific beyond that, but was hoping if there was there could be some sort of dialogue about 5s as compassionate toward animals and other causes like this.
I have wanted to be a scientist since I was 5 years old and first heard about the lunar landing and my first love was Nature. I grew up with a greta deal of love for all living things(I spent one summer volunteerring at a veternarian's officewhere you learn it isn't all cute and playfulness--I got to observe several declawings and autopsies whcih teach you that though you must be compasionate you must also become emotianlly detached or you'll be no good at what you are doing). For whatever reason--I must have just been more sensitive than most--I was disgusted by the sight and thought of meat since I was a child. I think much of this had to do with my perceptions of Giod--I went to a Catholic scholl for my first 3 schooling years and we were taught to love and respect all living things and the thought of eating a fellow animal was to me--I think--what cannibalism is to most other people. I had no problem with Bacon due to its nature--even after I found out what itwas--but the first time I was introduced to ham and I threw a fit and left the tablke. Over the years, I still ate bacon but dstayed awy form the obvious meat pruducts(ham, turkey,chicken,lunchmeat). Ironcially, however, I had been eating and enjoying meat(Pepperoni and sausae) on pizzas for years without ever reALly attaching any stigma to it due to my love of spicy foods. Since they are my favorite(spicy foods) I eventually began eating beef jerkiess eat candy bars--they were a mainstay in my daily diet--and this habit with my rationality evtually led me to detach myself from my natual revulsuion and i was abler to eat other meat products as well(which eased tensions at times). However,by my 16th year I was suffieciently wise enough an to decide to abstain from eating any meat whatsoever and I gave it up and haven;t started since(except on a few occasions when it was virtually necessary). I am now what is reffered to as a lactovegetarian which means I eat porimarily grians,greens,fruits, and dairies but no animals(red meat,fish meat,or eggs). Any revulsion I feel now is purely ethical--if forced to--say in a survival situation--I could eat meat without any physical revulsio n). Persoanlly, I believe the entire emat industry should be banned for what it is--wholesale slaghter. It's wrong. We have the resources and ablities to sustain our population on grains, fruits, greens, and daires togerther with substitutes. Several hundred years from now(mabe a bit longer considering) our descendants will look back and be disusted at the barbaric lic culture we are immersed in and I can immagine amused/horrified reactions to drive-through slqaughterhouses in the same way that many opeole now are disgusted with the basrbaric ways of those who lived just a few hundred years ago. Until then I feel like laughing and screaming every time I pass a MacDonald's. :) MAverick
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