Blubs of Verbs, Thought Crime Comments Off on On Being Humane to Animals
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right….” Abraham Lincoln
Humane.
We call ourselves that, but there is nothing sometimes human in what we do and treat animals. This article is not about PETA, nor will i wax poetic about how we are destroying the earth, nor am I caring that I don’t offer a solution. I’m just making a point.
Think about this from the dog’s point of view, and I’m using dogs because i like dogs, but any animal will do. After lives of abuse, where then they are rescued from a life of every lasting cruelty, most laws then require that the dog is then euthanized. How wonderful and humane of us, to save a creature from a life time of torment, so we can kill it as our final act of mercy.
OceansOfThought @ February 2, 2008
Commentary, Executive Papers, Truthiness Comments (1)
Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came …. Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. – Abraham Lincoln
There are wars of oppression, there are wars of liberation, there are wars of pure conflict and wars of simple hate, and of course, wars of greed. Basically the 7 deadly sins (to use an Anglo Saxon analysis) provide us with a reason to war.
Religion itself does not cause war. Most religions that are for serious consideration actually are against killing, especially the mass killings that wars are based on. Those who war using religion do so have more fundamental reasons than “religion.”.., but without being so esoteric, and limiting the scope to the last 10 years, then yes, it has been the single greatest reason we are currently warning on this planet.
The problem now is that war is a political tool, used for political purposes. No more is it to save oneself or someone else; thou that is a reason general given by politics. Those who are more powerful recognize the first purpose, the oppressed last’s chance for hope, or to stop and injustice, and instead sometimes threaten that /very/ injustice to get what they want. This is where we are now.
OceansOfThought @ January 28, 2008
“To state the question more directly, are all the laws, but one, to go unexecuted, and the government itself go to pieces, lest that one be violated? Even in such a case, would not the official oath be broken, if the government should be overthrown, when it was believed that disregarding the single law, would tend to preserve it? -Abraham Lincoln
The American democratic system is an amazing one. It has been tried other places around the world to varying degrees of power and success; but what is amazing is the american respect for the law. Sometimes striving for the goal is often times better than the goal itself and in american that is the very case with its many and varying mishmash of laws, but what if the highest law enforcer in the Land decided not to respect the law? Is that even a decision?
Perfectly enshrined in our system are the words. “All men are created equal.” and with it, is a sense that the law should (even if it doesn’t ) should apply to everyone and does so equally. The one person who is just as equal which is different in many places, and why this fails often, is the American President.
The American President is a powerful man, who has many abilities and powers at this control, but one of them is rather Interesting. He is charged with enforcing the law and all the powers of his office are encapsulated in one man.
US Constitution Article II, section 1The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.
OceansOfThought @ January 25, 2008