Anyway, that is the backdrop. The past 3 Thursdays (the day the local sale barn auctions take place) I have taken animals to the sale. Today I will pen 2 or 3 older cows and ship them on Thursday. This is managment for my animals. These are decisions I make regarding these animals as to whether they live or die. Some of the younger steers will go to the wheat fields to gain weight or to a feed lot to be 'finished' to produce to final product and quality of beef the American public wants. The older cows will be slaughtered within the week. I do not consider this a moral delima as these animals are not compelled by objective morality. I treat my stock with care. I do not mistreat them or hurt them. I do everything I can to be certain they are cared for. Then they are slaughtered for food.
WHAT IN HELL ARE THESE MEDICAL ETHICISTS SAYING? Are humans just a pen of cattle? These thoughts are insane by the keepers of the culture who change policies by changing the meaning of words or by a unilaterally declared euphemism. They expect the American public to be lulled into complacency regarding the selective killing of a set of people who cannot speak for themselves. Perhaps we will remain silent. But complicity by silence, does not absolve us or them of failure to acknowlege an objective moral truth. Is it true or is it false that it is objectively morally wrong to torture an infant? Or, is it simply an option to seize? The medical ethicists at Oxford seem to think it is a reasonable option to kill a newborn. I believe most Americans reject this notion. The collective wisdom of the American population will mostly, eventually get it right...at least that has been our history. Now, I am not so sure we will get it right. Abortion, infanticide, mercy killing, euthanasia, and our last move into codifying the moral validity of homosexuality seems to say we are getting a lot of things wrong.
What I do know is that it is wrong to kill innocent babies and it does not require a lot of thought on the subject.
I think these medical ethecists worship at the alter of resources which they think are more important than human life. But if humans beings have no intrinsic moral value, then there are no human rights. I have never heard of Black Angus Rights. We have all heard of human rights. So why do these medical ethiscists want to treat human beings like black angus cattle?
Then this article will probably make you sick. It’s about killing babies up to year after birth.
ironically & sadly, some of those who are perfectly okay with a mother/doctor kiliing an infant born alive in an abortion procedure, would be quie upset with your raising cattle for food.