Re:Death of a Pig (1948)
by khedoros1 on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @02:26AM
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> You're trying to bait me and I think that's unfair.
I offered a response in the spirit of your original comment. If you think that's unfair, then I don't know what to tell you. I think that you're being disingenuous with your posts as a rhetorical device to make a point about your perception of the ethics of using animals as food.
> White literally calls it murder.
In a non-literal, poetic sense. He uses the word murder two times, true.
> Is this what White was trying to express?
I don't think he's saying that people should feel better about killing animals. I think that he's acknowledging the reality that killing an animal for food is killing a feeling being. That it's better to go into an action with full knowledge of the result. I don't think it's a matter of making people feel better or worse about the situation.
He wasn't empathizing with the animal's death anyhow, at least not primarily; everything dies, after all. It was the unnecessary pain that was never a part of the plan.
I offered a response in the spirit of your original comment. If you think that's unfair, then I don't know what to tell you. I think that you're being disingenuous with your posts as a rhetorical device to make a point about your perception of the ethics of using animals as food.
> White literally calls it murder.
In a non-literal, poetic sense. He uses the word murder two times, true.
> Is this what White was trying to express?
I don't think he's saying that people should feel better about killing animals. I think that he's acknowledging the reality that killing an animal for food is killing a feeling being. That it's better to go into an action with full knowledge of the result. I don't think it's a matter of making people feel better or worse about the situation.
He wasn't empathizing with the animal's death anyhow, at least not primarily; everything dies, after all. It was the unnecessary pain that was never a part of the plan.