steve_bank
Diabetic retinopathy and poor eyesight. Typos ...
And today I had a ham sandwich. Tomorrow chicken or steak.
And today I had a ham sandwich. Tomorrow chicken or steak.
It is not about good or bad.
It is about the strangeness of caring about the bird but not the living things the bird is eating.
You have some birds that eat small mammals.
Do we feel empathy for the bird or the mammal?
Well, there is a lot that I don't agree with in your most recent post, but I don't have the will to discuss it with you, so I'll leave it at that. I see no point in arguing back and forth relentlessly when it's obvious that we have different viewpoints on things like empathy and how much we are able to control our emotions.
And today I had a ham sandwich. Tomorrow chicken or steak.
Yes.
Your empathy does not extend past your needs and desires like so many.
A dead bird is food for other creatures and decomposes back to nutrients retuned to the environment.
Is it moral to damper with Mother Nature as if we are god?
A dead bird is food for other creatures and decomposes back to nutrients retuned to the environment.
Is it moral to damper with Mother Nature as if we are god?
But humans are part of Mother Nature. So how are we tampering?
A dead bird is food for other creatures and decomposes back to nutrients retuned to the environment.
Is it moral to damper with Mother Nature as if we are god?
But humans are part of Mother Nature. So how are we tampering?
A dead bird is food for other creatures and decomposes back to nutrients retuned to the environment.
Is it moral to damper with Mother Nature as if we are god?
My wife, a devout Buddhist, is intent on saving lives. We have five different varieties of lizard, umpteen varieties of bird (hoopoes, herons, crows, owls, sunbirds, starlings, mynahs, etc. etc), squirrels and more on our property. My wife has nurtured several injured birds back to health. Sometimes one ends up in our house and can't find the way out. We open doors and windows and gently shoo them out.
The Hoopoe bird, which I'd never heard of until we wanted to figure out what we were seeing several years ago, is the Most Beautiful Bird in the world. We have an extended family of hoopoes living near our house now. In a corner of the roof, a tile is broken giving a little sanctuary — easy entrance to a place protected from rain — and that sanctuary has been the nest for several baby hoopoes over the years. We take care to keep trees and bushes pruned to deny snakes access to the hoopoe nest.
There is a family of chickens living in our old (haunted?) orchard. My wife insists they are a different variety — they fly much better than ordinary chickens — but I'd have guessed them to be ordinary chickens who somehow fled from any of several neighbors who raise chicken. Occasionally a neighbor's cat comes to our property and is forced up a tree to escape from our dogs. Rescuing that cat becomes high priority.
When she sees a poisonous scorpion, she doesn't kill it — she sweeps it into a bottle and escorts it back to the orchard. Mosquitoes and poisonous centipedes are about the only creatures we deliberately kill ourselves. (We also get poisonous snakes, but one of the primary duties of our dogs is to banish or kill snakes!) The last time we had a snake (Russell's viper! ) inside the house, I asked a neighbor for help. He caught the snake's head in a noose and escorted him alive to the old orchard. Buddhism forbids killing creatures. Monks don't even swat mosquitoes.
There was a video I saw where a family was out in the yard with a pet mouse on top a cage with their children when a hawk swooped in and flew off with the mouse.The only lessen here is humans have empathy.
And we should create societies that express that fact.
Nature is cruel and uncaring and unforgiving.
That is knowledge a person should have very early in life.