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Subject: Re: advice about conscience

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Wolfsdream

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Date Posted: 27/06/07 20:24
In reply to: squinney man 's message, "advice about conscience" on 24/06/07 11:12

Man has removed the natural predators from the equation in this country. So it is up to us to manage the animals as best we can.
Now, I would agree that we have not done that very well in the past(to put it mildly)but some action has to be taken to at least try to maintain some balance.

As someone who in the past has killed animals, both for pest control and for food I can understand the dilema faced here. BUT, everything we do has an effect. We are rightly concerned about killing animals as it causes them distress but what about all the plants we kill?
No, that is not a daft, silly or simplistic question. It has long been proven that plants are just as aware of what goes on around them as animals are. Further more it has been shown by repeated experiment that plants know when someone is abut to harm them or another plant near them. They react to such threats with what can only be described as fear. Plants are aware! They are in a very real sense 'conscious'.

Given that we humans have to exsist for our alloted life span it follows that we have to kill or at least harm living things to survive.

Of course it also, to my mind anyway, means we should take care of all living things around us in the best way we can.
Thus there is bound to be some moral conflict and it is up to each of us to resolve that as best we can.

Wolfsdream.

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Author: squinney man (thoughtful) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 27/06/07 20:52 Very few think about the poor plants,well said. Squinney. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]