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In reply to the discussion: Hunting, just a bad idea to go after this as if it were evil. [View all]zeemike
(18,998 posts)And are capable of inflicting much pain and suffering on large scale...but they seldom do it to eat.
And there is violence in the sea...and men will and do get attacked all the time by sharks and other creatures of the deep. and sometimes the death is slow and painful...and killer whales will and do attack other whales.
and if you want to look at it that way nature itself is full of violence but it is usually for food.
The shark and the killer whale and the lion and wolf are not evil because they kill and can never be evil because there eyes were never opened and they did not eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil.
We are burdened with this knowledge of good and evil but it also opens up an opportunity for us to achieve perfection by willfully rejecting evil itself and live the perfect life...and those that can do it will have a great reward...but those that want to force others to do so by using this knowledge against them and becomes a tool of evil itself.
At least that is how I see it.