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by wnight 5343 days ago
Do you eat meat?
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Yes I do. Like most people I do have some moral issues about it but consider it as a necessary evil. I do object to hunting as a sport, especially when endangered species are involved.
A case might be made for a few ounces of fish oil being beneficial, but to call meat necessary is intentional blindness.

And eating it because you like it is about like shooting it because it'd look nice stuffed. Sport and vanity.

You are attempting to use "tu quoque", a rather silly logical fallacy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque

Technically, any fallacy is silly.

But no, I wasn't attempting to use a fallacy in support of killing elephants. I was flat-out pointing out that his stance on some killing is hypocritical.

I agree that shooting the elephant was a dick move. I'd just go so far as to extend that to chickens.

I agree that killing for sport and eating meat are both unnecessary, do harm healthwise on an individual and social scale, and produce much suffering in the world.