More bad people who make the world worse: Animal Liberation Front loonies begrudging a 10-year-old boy dying of cancer his last wish. He wanted to go on a bear hunt. He got to go on a bear hunt. He was too weak to hold a gun, so his dad killed a bear with the boy at his side. The child died on the flight home to Georgia. Not my idea of a great way to spend one's last hours on earth, but still, the kid was dying, and bear hunting is legal.
Says one commenter on the ALF discussion board:
I can only hope the boy's death was a painful one. If you think about it though, this story has a somewhat happy ending. A young boy dying; therefore he can not grow up, spawn some other mutant losers and teach them how to hunt. I wonder how satan is treating him???
Who wants to contribute to a fund to help dying children hunt members of the Animal Liberation Front? Just kidding. Mostly.
(Via The Corner)
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"Any one of those babies was worth more than all the cats on Earth. ALF are scum, every last one of them."
A cure for Parkinson's disease would be worth more than all the embryonic stem cells on Earth that will be destroyed anyway. Do you feel as strongly about the forces that stand in the way of cures for disease because they put stem cells that will never be implanted above the lives of sick people? The people who put tissue ahead of people?
That's not to justify animal activists' behavior. Instead, it is to give it some perspective.
Yeah, Daniel, I do feel the same way. Embryonic stem cells are not people. If they are to be destroyed anyway, and using them can save living people, then for God's sake use them.
Beyond my paramedic experience, I also had a sister who died from a genetic disease (Cystic Fibrosis). The destruction of every excess embryo or the extinction of the common house-cat mean a lot less to me than my sisters life did.
Of course there is one distinction here. So far as I know stem-cell opponents haven't smashed labs or made death threats like ALF has. (They also aren't trying to change a species of omnivores into herbavores, which is just stupid). If stem-cell opponents begin behaving the same way then I'll loathe them too.
Lynn/Christine
Have you ever eaten a burger? How about chicken? Is there any leather in your home? Do you use insecticides? Or is "destruction of life" only an issue for you when you personally find it distasteful?
I can't speak for Lynn, but yepper, sure did when I was growing up. Went vegetarian several years ago. Also avoid leather. Doing my little part to help conserve water supplies, which are being stressed by our overconsumption of animal products. That's the beauty of being an omnivore. Unlike carnivores, we get to pick and choose what we eat.
At the same time I fully respect that some societies still need to hunt and raise animals to survive.
What that young boy was needing, it seems to me, was a "bonding" experience with his Dad before he died. Too bad he couldn't have fulfilled it without the needless destruction of an animal.
If God didn't want man to eat animals He would'nt have made them to taste like meat.
Let the bears live and when they get old, let them die. By firearm, or by a motor vehicle, or by some stupid sob poisoning them. I prefer a nature hunt that allows them to be smart and the fittest of the species, than any other above mentioned death.
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