Something i had been meaning to blog since quite a time now. This is regarding the pro-choice and pro-life issues in US. US people are divided on the issue of abortion. Pro-life people say that abortion should be illegal and life should be respected while pro-choice group advocates the freedom to choose to have a baby or not. Now consider these two questions:
1. How can you be pro-life and still eat non-veg and support hunting?
2.(the dual part) How can you be pro-choice but still hate killing of animals?
I believe in pro-choice and am a vegetarian (hate killing of animals) and thus need to answer question 2.
Although in my frame of mind, i find the question 2 to be baseless as i have clear rationality regarding abortion and killing of animals. Animals are just another species like us and we should not have any say on their life unless self-defense is required. But abortion is life coming from us and we should be accountable for that life. If we can not support it or can not take responsibility for it, i think its best to abort. Thus i support the freedom to choose. Scientific facts say that the fetus when aborted after some specified time has grown to a state that it is equivalent to killing a baby. I am no expert but my point is that not taking care of a child is equivalent to killing him. We, those who are responsible for birth, should have the freedom to choose and take adequate measures.
However, even though i belong to class 2 of people, i still can not understand any arguments by people who fall in class 1. To someone, both these questions may seem two sides of a coin but i think class 1 is totally unjustified. How can you kill innocent animals just for fun (hunting) or as part of daily diet. And so much so that your entire diet is based on eating animals and nothing else. If you respect life then what authority do you have on saying that our life is superior than others.
I finally concede that my views are still not properly developed on this and my answer to question 2 is still unsatisfactory. I seek comments/points to further explore different viewpoints.
3 comments:
dont know the answer to this question :( its a kind of question which we just tend to ignore in life. You know that typical human tendency...of assuming the absence of the answer to be the absence of the question.
Is there a right answer ? Perhaps not.
There are some parallels in killing animals and killing fetus - it is involuntary w.r.t. the subject itself (I choose not to kill).
To play the devil's advocate, why do vegetarians eat plants ?
So I think the question is more about what your tolerance allows, rather than a clean black and white. (Ms. Rand, of course, would disagree)
@manas:
You can debate eating plants issue through numerous ways but each has its own loophole aka none is perfect.
But when it comes to killing animals and relating it to pro-life, i still believe that the question is genuine and it requires an introspection greater than a customary thought. It becomes more important because of its influence in the daily lives of Americans here and its socio-politico scenario.
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