Sausage feed the dog, not absurd

 Sausage feed the dog, not absurd
"Morality is take sausage hello stray dogs feed to heart tears, and not to use the concerns of the pig completely feeling." This is a net friend to love people stray dog dog save the sarcasm, many people thought that these words exquisite, think it pointed to love dogs personage of logic contradiction, and then think love dog people practice is an absurd hypocrisy. Such contradictions topic, in recent years the disputes constantly, tsinghua university student pour sulfuric acid, abuse bear cat video, the rabbit abuse of the fierce dog people struggle, and recent hall of nirvana live bears the debate take bravery, were related to a topic: animal ethics. What do humans to animals?
Sausage feed the dog, not absurd
As for some animal protection, we must first confront a logic dilemma: human currently is not implemented completely vegetarian, besides killing and eating animals, but also has the wide range of the animal as the phenomenon of tools, such as animal experiments, etc. Such logic dilemma are everywhere: in sterilixed sausage feed pet dog, you let pig could love why? America has a the Animal Welfare Act (the Animal Welfare Act), inside for many animals do protection rules, are not allowed to feed on. But in poultry, meat in animals and rodents were ruled out. Don't pigeons need protection, chickens, ducks don't need to be? With what cats and dogs than mice nobility? A Hong Kong people had such questioned the treacherous the provisions of the law of the Hong Kong beast: why I can kill pig, but can't make love and pig?
Such logic to resort to the obviously very challenging questions, seemingly quite rational. But I in this to say is, this is actually one kind of the uroboros, surface it is logical, but not correct.
Why do you say so? Reason is that human society standard system is extremely complex, itself is not a single by logic and set up the system. The system has two dimensions: logic and history. WeiLiZhuYi and reflection of the history of the gradual evolution together form the traditional today social norms. In the human standard system, the logic of the contradictory phenomenon almost everywhere, such as though everyone has privately with the rights of the body, but the two men duel had voluntarily is illegal, volunteer to sell organs is also illegal; A country may have more than one hundred kinds of greatly small religious, although the law states have equal status of all religions, but is not each religious festival can like Christian Christmas national holiday that week.
Such contradictions examples are almost endless, it also decided that, we can't use a few logic to completely summarized article principle of complex social norm system. Want to use a few to absolute principle of both human society standard system approach, itself is quite radical and naive. Great philosopher wittgenstein was using "game" to explain this phenomenon: no matter how would you sum up the concept of the game features, you can find out a game, do not accord with the characteristics. In the legal science, this problem has been discussed adequately to WeiLiZhuYi instruct European law, by many people think that the traditional, to depend on the case as pay attention to the evolution of Anglo-American law that accord with substantial justice.
We went back to the topic of animal ethics, the principle of logic is indeed a very iportant dimension, but we must also back to history and tradition to study.
The animals in the traditional Chinese and western ethical
After a long historical evolution and reflection, the human several mainstream civilization system is a mature for animal ethics view. In several key point on, the mainstream of Chinese and western views are consistent. For example is sure the human center and dominant, think that plants and animals can be as tools and exist. But this does not mean that people can be wanton to animals. Human how to treat animals, for human civilization and dignity, and for the cultivation of human moral sense.
Our first look at the mainstream of western traditional idea. Thomas Christian theory is the landmark of the characters, he was a special discusses. In his "theory kill creatures and love irrational biological obligations", said god order of plant and animal life is for people not for their own and exist. But he clearly against the wanton cruelty to animals, reason is cruel to animals will be cruel to others, be kind to animals will undoubtedly is beneficial to people the cultivation of the sense of morality. There are some animals for a moral obligation. In addition, Christian's many denominations all think that humans are the natural order of god's love to the warden, nature and the animal itself is good, have the obligation to treat human nature.
Kant also think, animals are tools, who is a purpose. But he also think of cruelty to animals poison heart, go against the moral and kindness. He even pointed out, their owners shouldn't abandon long-term accompanied the dog, more can't eat it, should keep it to die, this is helpful for people's moral obligation and emotion. And bentham and John Stuart mill, although they are not vegetarian, also does not oppose anatomy animals, but bentham against hunting, fishing, and tempted animal game, mill is involved in the England the rspca.
We see the animals of the Chinese cultural tradition ethics. History carries qianlong 46 years, taiyuan shanxi has an abuse of meat food "donkey sweet museum," because living meat and was banned from government, the man must be main-canal they had. The reason is because the punishment of ruined the traditional Chinese values.
The kernel, benevolence, the goodness, is the core concept of Confucian culture. Mencius said: "a beast, and, behold, also in the living, not see its death. Hear its voice, not eat the meat is also a gentleman. Far book-search." The idealist phylosophy, cheng hao finds said "nature and the thing has reached alarming levels", this is expressed in everything mercy benevolence. Guan mu is against cruel killing animals: "it as a creature of the pain, easy for a moment of my sweet; the hell of the set, is therefore people, after the death of BaoLao punishment, and there will be too this person."
We can see from the eastern and western traditions, as far as possible humanitarian to animals, in fact for human dignity and ethics, such a kind of value advocates, is human love warm a reflected, not hypocrisy. England have provisions in history, ronny turiaf and the doctor not to participate in the jury, because they are used to seeing death, heart hard, can affect judgment. Still, things are against mainstream civilization beast crafty, also of human dignity and moral considerations.
Take care of people's feelings, which can also explain why to different animals, will have a different standard. Human different animals, feeling is not the same. You on the road on a ant, and stepped on the cat's feeling of course never be the same. Most of us can accept is speculation, but will a live rabbits directly into the pan, I'm afraid being many people blame. In addition, many of the traditional Chinese place have a dim the traditional oxen, and don't eat the cats and dogs as pets in the truth, because they are long-term as friends of human beings, the relationship has been in the many people into feelings.