:Then I will have to be convinced why, if morality is a human construct, that the current meating eating, animal testing, and animal exploiting nature of man is immoral. It is the accepted practice of the day. The only other position that can be argued is that morality and immorality are determined by some ecclesistical standard apart from man. Then we get to argue religion a little more. We don't argue morally, instead we argue ęsthetically, that underlying most animal-rightists concerns, imminent within their argument, is a distrust/dislike of the sheer utilitarian performativity of Modern treatment of Animals. that animals are not treated as a thing in-themselves, but instead use-values, mechanical permformativity (of the sort you describe above).
Further, there is a degreee of projection, as there is within all human perceptions of totality, which feels the techno-bureaucratic medeical surveilant gaze to be an active threat to their humanness/humanity.
: Do you folks understand that the spiritual facet of man is far more important than the rational and factual aspects?
there is no 'spiritual' facet, if by that you mean an apprehension of things that are not material, there is an ęsthetic facet, of which religion is a subset. What is Bob if not the worship of the Sublime. Yeah, though I walk through the valley of death, surrounded by hard bastards, God is the biggest and hardest bastard of them all, and he's my bastard.
:Isn't it wonderful how this issue forces the soul to introspection and forces those who will not acknowledge God to argue superficially and peripherally?
Isn't it wonderful that Philsopobhy dealt with most of these questions two hundred years ago?
Let me ask you a question- where does the Bible get its authority from? Who decided to put in Paul's letters to the Cornithians, but not Paul's letters to his mum? Who decided which of the numerous available Gospels to put in and exclude? Is the bible dissiciable from the authority of these people? Do you believe in the apostlic tradition and the Nicean reed?
