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You could. But with a non-availability of spoons you could be sitting contemplating consuming your fifteen quid trifle forever, or until it turned into yoghurt .... whichever comes first.
If you want to, you can.
And, if you can, you must!
Yeah, it could be argued that had the mink never been brought here to farm that they could never have been released.
Though on some level my opinion is, that given Humans are a natural species.... Everything we do is within the natural order.
I sometimes find it hard to swallow my own feelings on that matter, and often find my own position distasteful. Yet I always come back to that way of thinking.
I hunt and fish, yet I possibly value animals as highly as people.... Sometimes higher because I can have a pretty dim view of humanity.
Part of me feels that everything is just energy eternally traveling a journey that from my perspective might as well be endless.... So why even worry about what we do, because it really doesn't matter one iota and won't even be noticed by the greater existence.
The other part of me feels that our hierarchical system of judging rights by a capacity to think is absolute bullshit, surely for a life form to have rights the only question we should ask is does it have the capacity to suffer?
I agree with and have had the same thoughts about everything you've said here Marc. A point especially with hunting is that a lot of hunters have a lot of respect for the animals they're killing. There's whole tribes for whom this is a way of life and treat there prey with the greatest of respect because of they look after there prey, they'll look after themselves.
There's a whole debate about most peoples attitude to the disposable world we live in and I find people who have extreme or overly strong views about some things tend not to see the bigger picture.
As was mentioned it's always good to debate things and I love doing it to see what other peoples points of views are. I just get fed up with people with blinkers on who whinge about the things they're told to whinge about especially with no personal experience of any wrong doing.
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