Guest guest Posted March 20, 2002 Report Share Posted March 20, 2002 >The only real guide-line I can go >by is,anything that gives life and enhances non-destructive life- >forms can be considered right (good) and anything that harms non- >destructive life forms can be considered wrong (bad). What is the difference between a destructive and non-destructive life form? If (as you have stated) that the animals created by God (including humans) are non-destructive then can there be a destructive life form? And to go way off topic what about noise pollution? If I moved next door to you and played my stereo at full volume at 3AM without any consideration for you, most people would say that I'm doing wrong. To use the animal rights philosophers I have already mentioned as examples, Singer would say that the benefit to me from loud music is outweighed by the loss of sleep that everyone else would experience. Regan on the other hand would say that you have the right to peace and quiet and that I am infringing on your rights. The point is that right and wrong is much more than just the issue of life and death. Even so (and I don't want to dig up past discussions) what about euthanasia or suicide? Technically they harm non-destructive life forms but at the same time you also cause harm by their prohibition. And I'll preempt any biblical argument against suicide by pointing you to the following essays, both of which argue that the position of the church is anti-christian: 'On Suicide' by Arthur Schopenhauer (1851) and can be read at http://www.concentric.net/~Wkiernan/text/Schopenhauer_On_Suicide_1.html Quote: " As far as I know, none but the votaries of monotheistic, that is to say, Jewish religions, look upon suicide as a crime. This is all the more striking, inasmuch as neither in the Old or in the New Testament is there to be found any prohibition or positive disapproval of it " 'On Suicide' by David Hume (1783) and can be read at http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/452_r5.html Quote: " Were the disposal of human life so much reserved as the peculiar province of the Almighty, that it were an encroachment on his right, for men to dispose of their own lives; it would be equally criminal to act for the preservation of life as for its destruction. If I turn aside a stone which is falling upon my head, I disturb the course of nature, and I invade the peculiar province of the Almighty, by lengthening out my life beyond the period which by the general laws of matter and motion he had assigned it. " Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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