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Swiss Govt Gives "Rights" to PLANTS! -
06-01-2008, 12:01 PM
THIS just boggles the mind. A more obvious bitchslap across Christ's loving face I cannot imagine, but of course in the wicked, depraved world of radical victimhood it all makes sense. They grant special rights to females (voting, working, refusing a direct order from her husband, etc), special rights to porch monkeys (welfare, food stamps, free needles for shooting marijuana), special rights for wetbacks (stealing American jobs, free bisexual education for their litter of runts), and special rights for queers (free condoms, not being stoned to death on site, mocking normal marriage), special rights to animals (pets on demand, not having experimental cosmetics injected directly into their eyes), so I suppose the next "logical" step in the hellbound march toward eternal damnation is special rights for plants.
If they think I'm going to tell my jap gardeners to stop spraying weed-killer, or that I'm going to apologize for eating a bowl of peas, they've got another think coming! The evil Swiss will have to pry the weed whacker from Yoshiki's dead yellow hands before I sit back and allow my rolling estate to be overrun with crab grass.
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The Silent Scream of the Asparagus
You just knew it was coming: At the request of the Swiss government, an ethics panel has weighed in on the "dignity" of plants and opined that the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong. This is no hoax. The concept of what could be called "plant rights" is being seriously debated.
A few years ago the Swiss added to their national constitution a provision requiring "account to be taken of the dignity of creation when handling animals, plants and other organisms." No one knew exactly what it meant, so they asked the Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology to figure it out. The resulting report, "The Dignity of Living Beings with Regard to Plants," is enough to short circuit the brain.
A "clear majority" of the panel adopted what it called a "biocentric" moral view, meaning that "living organisms should be considered morally for their own sake because they are alive." Thus, the panel determined that we cannot claim "absolute ownership" over plants and, moreover, that "individual plants have an inherent worth." This means that "we may not use them just as we please, even if the plant community is not in danger, or if our actions do not endanger the species, or if we are not acting arbitrarily."
The committee offered this illustration: A farmer mows his field (apparently an acceptable action, perhaps because the hay is intended to feed the farmer's herd--the report doesn't say). But then, while walking home, he casually "decapitates" some wildflowers with his scythe. The panel decries this act as immoral, though its members can't agree why. The report states, opaquely:
At this point it remains unclear whether this action is condemned because it expresses a particular moral stance of the farmer toward other organisms or because something bad is being done to the flowers themselves.
What is clear, however, is that Switzerland's enshrining of "plant dignity" is a symptom of a cultural disease that has infected Western civilization, causing us to lose the ability to think critically and distinguish serious from frivolous ethical concerns. It also reflects the triumph of a radical anthropomorphism that views elements of the natural world as morally equivalent to people.
Why is this happening? Our accelerating rejection of the Christian world view, which upholds the unique dignity and moral worth of human beings, is driving us crazy. Once we knocked our species off its pedestal, it was only logical that we would come to see fauna and flora as entitled to rights.
The intellectual elites were the first to accept the notion of "species-ism," which condemns as invidious discrimination treating people differently from animals simply because they are human beings. Then ethical criteria were needed for assigning moral worth to individuals, be they human, animal, or now vegetable.
Rising to the task, leading bioethicists argue that for a human, value comes from possessing sufficient cognitive abilities to be deemed a "person." This excludes the unborn, the newborn, and those with significant cognitive impairments, who, personhood theorists believe, do not possess the right to life or bodily integrity. This thinking has led to the advocacy in prestigious medical and bioethical journals of using profoundly brain impaired patients in medical experimentation or as sources of organs.
The animal rights movement grew out of the same poisonous soil. Animal rights ideology holds that moral worth comes with sentience or the ability to suffer. Thus, since both animals and humans feel pain, animal rights advocates believe that what is done to an animal should be judged morally as if it were done to a human being. Some ideologues even compare the Nazi death camps to normal practices of animal husbandry. For example, Charles Patterson wrote in Eternal Treblinka--a book specifically endorsed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals--that "the road to Auschwitz begins at the slaughterhouse."
Eschewing humans as the pinnacle of "creation" (to borrow the term used in the Swiss constitution) has caused environmentalism to mutate from conservationism--a concern to properly steward resources and protect pristine environs and endangered species--into a willingness to thwart human flourishing to "save the planet." Indeed, the most radical "deep ecologists" have grown so virulently misanthropic that Paul Watson, the head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, called humans "the AIDS of the earth," requiring "radical invasive therapy" in order to reduce the population of the earth to under a billion.
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Re: Swiss Govt Gives "Rights" to PLANTS! -
06-01-2008, 12:35 PM
Does that mean that they'll have to get written consent from the marijuana plant before freebasing?
What they don't seem to realize is that all other living things were given to us for our use. Just as every kind of animal life has been tamed of mankind (James 3:7), all seed-bearing plants were given to us for food:
Gen. 1:29: And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which [is] upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which [is] the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
I'll leave it to the Creation scientists to determine how that verse applies to plants that produce spores instead of seeds, like ferns and mushrooms, but my point remains nonetheless.
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Re: Swiss Govt Gives "Rights" to PLANTS! -
06-01-2008, 12:40 PM
I will NOT stand idly by and watch our society erode to the point where men are marrying watermelons and women are marrying cucumbers! Come on, liberals, when will even you fall enough from God to say enough is enough?
We need to get a constitutional amendment passed before this madness infects America!
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Re: Swiss Govt Gives "Rights" to PLANTS! -
06-01-2008, 12:45 PM
Good Lord! What's next? A lettuce parade?
Psalm 81:10:
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt:
open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
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Re: Swiss Govt Gives "Rights" to PLANTS! -
06-01-2008, 04:24 PM
I'd like to go visit Switzerland in a few years when the weeds have overgrown the houses and the rainforest takes over the jungles there.
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Re: Swiss Govt Gives "Rights" to PLANTS! -
06-09-2008, 05:09 PM
Can we now ship PETA vegans to Switzerland for criminal prosecution, for their wholesale destruction and consumption of innocent fruits and vegetables?
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Re: Swiss Govt Gives "Rights" to PLANTS! -
06-09-2008, 10:28 PM
Every time I hear an animal rights person blabbering on about hunting and such I wonder about how they could kill vegetables and rip babies out of trees, from their mom's arms so to speak, and then eat them!!!
Not to mention what they do to pumpkins to worship satan on Halloween!
Bunch of silliness, but if they all believe it and starve to death to be "cool" and it rids hollywood of 99% of its population, its a good thing.
Like this atrocity!
http://veganatheist.com/?feed=rss2
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5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled
10:21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
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Re: Swiss Govt Gives "Rights" to PLANTS! -
06-10-2008, 10:17 AM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...e-disease.html
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A couple who raised their daughter on a strict vegan diet could face questioning from police after she was admitted to hospital with a degenerative bone condition which left her with the spine of an 80-year-old woman.
Doctors treating the 12-year-old are likely to face pressure to report the pair to police and social workers after criticism from nutritionists concerned that the couple's commitment to veganism took precedent over their daughter's wellbeing.
The girl, who has eaten no meat or dairy since her birth, is said to be suffering from a severe form of rickets, as well as several fractured bones.
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I hope the police see this and round up the children of all vegans everywhere to save them from child abuse!
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5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled
10:21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
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Re: Swiss Govt Gives "Rights" to PLANTS! -
07-02-2008, 07:51 AM
Have the weeds taken over Switzerland yet?
Matthew:
5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled
10:21 And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.
10:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
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Re: Swiss Govt Gives "Rights" to PLANTS! -
07-02-2008, 11:48 AM
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Originally Posted by eliot mayfield
Have the weeds taken over Switzerland yet?
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Pretty sure weed was present before this ruling and the primary reason for it.
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