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Originally Posted by matious
I target PETA specifically just because it's animals, and i can't relate.
I'm not going to argue against anyone against pollution, or deforestation. Something that serves the common good, and i know peta is involved partly in things like this.
But just look at Lucifer's example. Its literally that some of them value animal life OVER human, and that is what i can't understand.
It's also unfortunate that PETA seems to get a lot more celebrity and mass media promotion then those other organizations who are just "shooting videos of Africans"
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PETA gets more attention in general because that's how our media works. When Oprah built her school it was all over the news and when PETA has Pamela Anderson going naked it gets press too. It's not something to look down on, it's just PETA being savvy.
Also Lucifer's example is fairly difficult to look at; at face value I'd say the woman is stupid but when you look at what the situation most likely was I can sort of understand where's she coming from (sort of.) There's a difference between blowing up a dog and a religious fanatic who thinks what he's doing is going to cause him to go to the heaven of seventy-two virgins. But that's not the point anyway. I'd say yes valuing a human life over an animal's life is stupid. If I see a baby about to die and a puppy about to die who am I going to save? The baby but if I can save both then why not?
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Originally Posted by khfreek
OK. This is the part where I look most like a ****. Let's take Terry Schaivo (however you spell it). She was a vegetable, and doctors had determined she had next-to-no brain function. If all she's doing is making her family members' lives awkward and running up their medical bills, then I would be of the opinion that there would be nothing wrong with ending her life.
There is a bit of a grey area with cases like extremely dysfunctional handicapped people, where you're not sure what they feel. That would really be at the family's discretion.
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Yeah but a dog has more brain function than someone who's brain dead.