Good Guy Greg

No, no we don't.

i just came to read the comments... im ashamed of all of you! lol jk... maybe =]

I'm an omnivore. Do I consider myself above any form of life, no. Do I enjoy the fact that something ,must die for me to live, no. I consider all life sacred. And I have no problems with those who choose to be vegetarian and vegan. If they treat me and my life choices with respect, I respect theirs'. It's when they act like holier than thou, militant douche bags that I get irritated. And I love when the militant ones tell me I'm arrogant for eating meat. To me arrogant is that humans, a bunch of hairless apes living on a small planet orbiting a middle aged star, in the outer spiral arm of an unimpressive spiral galaxy, has decided that of all the insanely, new infinite forms of life in this universe, that the animal kingdom alone is more sacred than any other and more worthy of protection while everything else is fair game. That my friends, is true arrogance.

thank you for stating the obvious

People who eat meat tell you more often than vegans do without realizing it -_-
Ya'll are just conditioned to notice the pattern in what you find unusual.
Besides, a good vegan puts their time in converting the masses.

"A good vegan puts their time in converting the masses"
No...those are called assholes

You're mistaken; the assholes are the ones who subject living beings to a contemporary holocaust for their preferences. Nice try, though.

Here, i found a list of assholes.
http://lib.colostate.edu/wildlife/atoz.php?letter=ALL

I'm going to presume this is a list of predatory animals, in which case you're drawing on false equivalence; I specifically said: "for their preferences" (RE: in spite of having the option not to). There's a fundamental difference between killing out of necessity and killing out of leisure.

Both humans and animals kill for need and for leisure.

Animals more seldom kill for leisure than do humans, but the point I'm making is that both humans and animals also cross-species play and resource share, even if it is the minority, and in this case, it is the minority that acts most admirably.

Look up any of those things I listed for you and try to tell me there's nothing to it.

Yeah, cats always just kill that poor little mouse straight out with a quick, hard bite to the neck, they NEVER torture a mouse for hours, letting it run away then recapturing it, crippling it and tossing its immobile yet still alive body around. And, they don't just kill to give their owners a present. Prey Animals have an instinct to hunt, their can't fight their instincts any more than they can fight their physiology, the physiology that makes them capable of killing and consuming animals, just like human beings.

How many animals do you see trying to convert others to their diet out of interest?

I wouldn't know as I don't speak their language, but some wild animals look out for animals of other species and bond with animals of other species. People act like this doesn't occur unless humans are one of the two parties, but compassion for other species is not a human-exclusive trait.

There's a video too painful to watch a second time, but give it a look. I don't recall the name but it shouldn't be hard to find. There are fish out of water that some assholes left to suffocate on the concrete, and their dog is running his nose through puddles, trying to splash it onto their gills and keep them hydrated. Meanwhile, the owners just find it so amusing. It really sickens me to my core.

I'm just saying, that claim you made about killing going both ways also applies to compassion, and the compassionate seem to be the minority.

People act like using the cruel example of nature makes it appropriate for them to do something, but nature has examples of kindness, too, which makes the argument of "natural=OK" totally moot.

How many humans adopt instead of/in addition to having their own children?
How many people pledge their excess resources to help others?
How many people actually keep their promises when something unforeseen happens, and doing so would require sacrifice?
How many people avoid doing preferential things they know to be damaging, whether it's not eating animals, getting off their lazy asses and buying a water filter so they don't need to consume bottled water, or getting a more efficient car instead of a sports car in an attempt to get laid?
How many people are fiscally responsible with their finances in general, let alone their food finances?
How many buy their food local-only or grow their own?
How many people actually understand their children's natural propensities and nurture them toward that so they actually know what they want to do as they grow older?
For that matter, how many parents actually understand how to raise their children without striking them?
Or using negative reinforcement on their pets?
Even little things, like being trusting and trustworthy.

I think of these things, and I think, "That's what amounts to a good person.
People who have a better option, and take the better option."

I'm more libertarian/right-wing in respects to I do not believe the government should force people to do the right thing beyond the point of not doing malicious things, but I still believe in doing good. Gotta have a heart.

I'm not sure what you're trying to prove with all those questions but the answer is a lot to all of them.

I don't even think nature=ok I'm just saying that everyone should have the choice to eat and do what they want whether they be human or animal.

If you want to see a few examples of some of these animals being very kind to others when their needs are excessively met, feel free to look up:
-Polar Bears Play With Huskies
-Little Tyke Vegetarian Lioness
- Swans Feeding Koi Fish

There are lots of random little examples you can find. I imagine fewer animals kill when it's not a necessity/ their needs are met. They may be oddities in the animal kingdom, but I'd argue they're oddities in the human populace as well.

Inter-species resource sharing and inter-species play is not a phenomenon unique to humans. There is a universal consciousness which wishes to discard the need for unnecessary killing. Just something to think about.

Nice joke, but have you got any actual reply? :P

But every thing we do to every other form of life is okay? Just because their biology and senses are totally different than ours makes them fair game. Sorry but plants, algae, and fungi have just as much right to life as animals. To me assholes are arrogant individuals who feel that they are somehow more evolved than others and because of that they can pick and choose which life forms deserve protection at all costs while everything else goes to slaughter.

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