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People are by nature selfish ceatures with their own self interests at heart.
You aren't "by nature" anything you manipulable twit, and in an especially ironic twist of fate, most of that ridiculous @#%^ing pessimism that gets disguised as "realism" is a modern, western conception, which you are using to ridicule other modern, western conceptions.
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What pisses me off is that people tend to only see things through their own tiny viewpoint, an extreme example of this naivety would be Marie-Antoinette "let them eat cake".
I don't honestly give a sh*t whether or not someone believes that causing harm isn't all that bad, and broadening my viewpoint to their culture doesn't make it any less abhorrent. If this was about any situation in the world aside from animal rights, no one would make this argument and actually be taken seriously. For example:
Clitoral circumcision is perfectly fine as a way to encourage sexual responsibility, because the only ethical objection to is is because of a biased western perspective. Little girls don't actually deserve to mature into adulthood with a labia, and I have no right whatsoever to judge someone who cuts off the @#%^ing ***** of a child as barbarous in any way because I'm just not trying hard enough to understand the culture.
I don't honestly understand (okay I do, but I'm pretending not to for rhetorical effect) why compassion is exalted in every ethical debate ever, except for ones pertaining to animals.
Edited, Aug 20th 2009 5:23pm by Pensive