07-22-2012, 10:17 AM
i think violence (apart from butchering 
) is completely irrational. and though i don''t want to go into farming or non farming; if we got rid of our domesticated animals we'd simply hunt what fauna there was to extinction. while some rainforests may get damaged due to cows, in general it's agricultural crops and mining that plays the larger part and the need to make furniture from exotic hardwood. but that's not the issue, although i suppose there is an argument for violence to the planet; many do see it as a living breathing entity after all. so instead of meat eating, we'd cut the trees down to grow maize. kids are resilient and need violence in there lives. not the heavy handed stuff but they need to know about it, be opened to what guises it wears. i often think verbal and emotional violence are worse than the punch, kick, or slap though they do all tend to happen at once in cases of wife beating etc. i also think there's a social violence that society as whole employs, racism, bigotry, child labour etc, much of it going unnoticed or at the very least ignored.
) is completely irrational. and though i don''t want to go into farming or non farming; if we got rid of our domesticated animals we'd simply hunt what fauna there was to extinction. while some rainforests may get damaged due to cows, in general it's agricultural crops and mining that plays the larger part and the need to make furniture from exotic hardwood. but that's not the issue, although i suppose there is an argument for violence to the planet; many do see it as a living breathing entity after all. so instead of meat eating, we'd cut the trees down to grow maize. kids are resilient and need violence in there lives. not the heavy handed stuff but they need to know about it, be opened to what guises it wears. i often think verbal and emotional violence are worse than the punch, kick, or slap though they do all tend to happen at once in cases of wife beating etc. i also think there's a social violence that society as whole employs, racism, bigotry, child labour etc, much of it going unnoticed or at the very least ignored.