Re: Judge and jury in the coal powerplant case

He has a choice??? Yea, of course he does. He goes home to his wife and 8
kids and says, "Now dear, do you fancy steak, bream or veggie quiche
tonight?". His wife replys, " No, I'll make do with mealie-meal like we
have
had every night for the past 20 years!"

So, by your reckoning then, its wrong to eat meat, unless you're starving,
after which point, its OK; but if you have access to other foods, including
meat in more affluent parts of the world, then you can a) eat meat, but be
ashamed of yourself, or b) ought to become a vegan if you really are on the
ball, morally speaking?

That's a bit of a strange and selective attitude to animals and food isn't
it? Even God in the Bible tells his believers that they can all eat the meat
of his animals. I don't recall reading anything about unless you are a
Westerner when you really should know better...


Get real! Many Africans hardly have a choice between living and dying!

My argument is not about Africans being able to eat fish out of necessity,
it is about your odd belief that we are somehow different, morally speaking
if we have a, hmm, I'm guessing you're a Waitrose or M&S man, nearby in
order to choose something more suitable to eat like a prepacked luxury fish
pie, rather than going fishing and catching the fish and turning it into an
even better luxury fish pie yourself. You seem to be suggesting that eating
fish is more or less morally wrong depending on who you are and what your
circumstances are, rather than it is wrong to eat fish (or any other animal
come to think of it) fullstop. That makes abso-bloody-lutely no sense.

Such ignorance of the rest of the world exemplifies the liberal middle
classes in this country.

Precisely. Go fishing, see what it means to hunt like many other cultures do
around the world and bring your dinner home, then tell me about it.

Instead of climbing onto a real cause, poverty,
malnutrition and starvation, Aids, TB and malaria in the Third World, or
pollution in the air they breath or food they eat, they find a cosy cause
such as "global change", install a couple of polluting low energy dim
lightbulbs, and then sit back, "bond with the world" and feel very pleased
with themselves. All this global change is garbage when there are many
more
greater and immediate dangers facing us.

Some of that is true but I'm not agreeing to a picture you may be trying to
paint of me there. Dunno what your "global change" is though. I think the
point about "climate change" is that it will affect _everyone_ if nothing is
done to correct or lessen it.

Some of the other issues you quite rightly have highlighted are of course of
extreme desparation to many people around the world too and something should
be done about those things also as they are happening right now.


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