Originally Posted by XXXWriterDude
Hamilton,
Your defense of bestiality seems to hinge on what you don't know about what animals may or may not be thinking or feeling. But I would think that it would be because of that very reason that people would condemn it. We have no idea how they might be feeling about such a thing, so it's incumbent upon us to NOT take advantage of that fact.
And for God's sake, would you please get off the whole pet thing? There's nothing wrong with having a pet, and we can gleen from our pets' actions that they don't have a problem with it as well. (But when a pet is squirming to get away while you're bucking wildly away at its ass, I would guess to say that means they aren't enjoying themselves.) Like I've said, my cat knows that she is free to go whenever and wherever she wants, but it is obvious that she chooses not to. I leave the front door hanging wide open for her, and she never strays any further than three feet. And many many people have outdoor pets, who can certainly take off if they wish to.
People have pets for companionship, and in most cases, there is a mutual respect between pet "owner" and pet.
But just because animals can't talk in Engligh does not mean that they don't have anything important to say, or that their lives are any less important than ours. Humans may have become the "dominant species," as you put it, simply b/cuz we have evolved a little bit further, but we're also the ones who are probably going to destroy this world by blowing it up over greed over oil and, oh, any other little thing we can cook up in our "intellects." The only thing I see humans truly dominant in is arrogance, and you, my friend, seem to be a perfect example of that arrogance. It's almost as if you're saying, "Well, since the horse can't actually SAY 'no' in English, it doesn't mean he's against me fucking him, so why don't I just stick my dick in his ass since it's what *I* want to do?"
What about a three-month-old infant? They aren't able to say "NO" either. Does that make it OK to have sex with them?
Remember, in the early days, back before we had skyscrapers and computers and concrete roads, the animals were the dominant forces on the planet. True, we may have "evolved" and developed our intellects a bit more and taken over the world, but I don't think that entitles us to anything that we don't deserve. And there is a LOT we don't deserve. In fact, humans have never demonstrated that we deserve any of the things we have, because we've shown that we have no respect for the things we destroy and consume. In fact, it seems the only thing that has really gotten us to where we are today is greed. Pure, egomaniacal, human greed.
The rest of the world is not ours to do with as we please. We may think in our arrogance and vanity that it is, but no, it's not. It never has been. We are slowly destroying our own planet. One day, there won't even be a planet earth left because of what we've done to it. And who will we be able to blame for that? The supposedly "evolved" human race, that's who. As far as I'm concerned, such actions don't demonstrate intellectual superiority, but pure, unadulterated stupidity.
At least that's how I see it. :)