Jahnu
2020-09-10 03:31:25 UTC
The basis of good and evil is God, obviously. Without God, good and
evil will remain the relative opinions and wishful thinking of humans.
Factually, only God can define good and evil for us. So without God,
there is no good or evil. In that case, everything just is. Moral and
ethics, in fact, any values at all, are just human speculations.
If good and evil are merely up to opinion, or if its just a matter of
what the majority of people agree on, how is it good or evil?
Most people will agree that rape, murder and torture are evil. The
same people, however, will gladly buy the products from an industry
that tortures and murders animals by the millions every day in
high-tech death factories, the world over.
Can you imagine the public outrage, if people were treated like
animals are being treated in the modern food-production?
I say the meat-industry is pure evil, other people say that
slaughter-houses are just food-production plants, and great for
business. In Denmark, where I come from, they call raising cattle and
pigs for slaughter, they call it agriculture. How can agriculture be
evil, right?
So who is going to determine whether treating animals like meat-racks,
instead of like living beings, is good or evil? Clearly only God can
do that.
"One who partakes of human flesh, the flesh of a horse or of another
animal, and deprives others of milk by slaughtering cows, O King, if
such a fiend does not desist by other means, then you should not
hesitate to cut off his head."
--Rig-veda (10.87.16)
"He who permits the slaughter of an animal, he who cuts it up, he who
kills it, he who buys or sells meat, he who cooks it, he who serves it
up, and he who eats it, must all be considered as the slayers of the
animal. There is no greater sinner than that man who though not
worshiping the gods or the ancestors, seeks to increase the bulk of
his own flesh by the flesh of other beings."
(Manu-samhita 5.51-52)
evil will remain the relative opinions and wishful thinking of humans.
Factually, only God can define good and evil for us. So without God,
there is no good or evil. In that case, everything just is. Moral and
ethics, in fact, any values at all, are just human speculations.
If good and evil are merely up to opinion, or if its just a matter of
what the majority of people agree on, how is it good or evil?
Most people will agree that rape, murder and torture are evil. The
same people, however, will gladly buy the products from an industry
that tortures and murders animals by the millions every day in
high-tech death factories, the world over.
Can you imagine the public outrage, if people were treated like
animals are being treated in the modern food-production?
I say the meat-industry is pure evil, other people say that
slaughter-houses are just food-production plants, and great for
business. In Denmark, where I come from, they call raising cattle and
pigs for slaughter, they call it agriculture. How can agriculture be
evil, right?
So who is going to determine whether treating animals like meat-racks,
instead of like living beings, is good or evil? Clearly only God can
do that.
"One who partakes of human flesh, the flesh of a horse or of another
animal, and deprives others of milk by slaughtering cows, O King, if
such a fiend does not desist by other means, then you should not
hesitate to cut off his head."
--Rig-veda (10.87.16)
"He who permits the slaughter of an animal, he who cuts it up, he who
kills it, he who buys or sells meat, he who cooks it, he who serves it
up, and he who eats it, must all be considered as the slayers of the
animal. There is no greater sinner than that man who though not
worshiping the gods or the ancestors, seeks to increase the bulk of
his own flesh by the flesh of other beings."
(Manu-samhita 5.51-52)