The secret life of Violent Vegetarians

    

 

I was browsing through a profile of someone I know from school and I saw an opinion saying "I don't think anyone should have guns except soldiers, hunting is unnecessary." I just thought to myself; "what is it about guns that would make someone not want other people to have them?" Furthermore what is it about soldiers or cops having guns that make this person think that the negative aspects of owning a gun ceases when we give up freedom for domination?

    1.2 million Iraqi citizens have been violently murdered since the presence of United States soldiers in Iraq. This fact doesn't faze animal rights activists because humans eat animals and are therefore immoral. I want to make a counter claim. I claim that humans have a right to kill animals and have no right to kill or harm another person's body or property. By person, of course, I mean those who are able to or potentially able to engage in contracts and fulfill obligations. Not only is this claim beneficial to gun owners but it is beneficial to those who want to see less animal death.

    The problem with using the state as an agent of change is controlling the direction of the change that occurs. If one is able to have a law passed that restricts the actions of other people simply because they despise the actions that are occurring then a law can be passed against anyone for the very same reasons. This process turns a diverse population into rank and file blank faces of submission (think Bolshevik Russia or all those idiot's who comment "glad they peppered sprayed the crazy holding a flower out to all those police at the RNC). As a minority, vegetarians will find it hard to pass restrictive laws on hunting and other violent acts against animals. There is a solution to this (and yeah, it means you are not allowed to dominate the lives and thoughts of your peers).

    Property is what enables human beings to rise above the squalor of animals into wealth and comfort. For centuries some people have used their property to better their own life and the lives of everyone that associates with them (we call this capitalism). Property has many good aspects to it. The best thing about property is that one can do what one will as long as it has no measurably negative effects on another person's property. If I want to hunt on my property and I keep it stocked with deer then not only do I have a right to do that but I have the right to violently protect my right to do that. If you, on the other hand, want to have an animal utopia on your property, well, you not only have the right to do that but a right to protect your right to do that.

Property is just by virtue of being human because otherwise humans would not be at all. ON top of that the existence of property maximizes human happiness. Without property agriculture would disappear and the tragedy of the commons would set in destroying everything from your house to your iPod (don't be naïve enough to think something like an iPod would exist in a property-less society). The solution is obvious: buy as many animals as you can and store them on your property! Ingenious.

Supporting the death of millions of foreigners and supporting the act of police brutality here in the United States by further concentrating power into the hands of our parasitical government will not only destroy your cause but it will destroy more human life than ever before. I want to be treated with respect when I walk around with my daughter not belittled with violent undertones by our militaristic state.