If you can kill animals, the same attitude can kill human beings. The mentality is the same which exploits nature and which creates wars.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defence, should one think of killing any animal.
The nature of human beings is to eat meat and fruits and vegetables, and therefore we have to kill animals. I don't have a problem with that. But it's a sacred moment. It's a gift of life.
When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct.
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.
I know that war and mayhem run in our blood. I refuse to believe that they must dominate our lives. We humans are animals, too, but animals with amazing powers of rationality, morality, society. We can use our strength and courage not to savage each other, but to defend our highest purposes.
In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.
Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.
Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast.