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**XGoFivk7** · 11-30-2011, 04:19 AM

I hadn't realised that life was not for playing with and the rabbit still had its life to play out. It was not prepared for death and wanted none of it.

Thanks for sharing your experiences, it must have been traumatic to have experienced that as a child. I do not see a rabbit being killed against its will as the same as a person consciously wishing to die (especially if the body likely would have died already if not for modern science forcing the individual to hold on).

Both beating the rabbit, and modern science holding onto life, are human attempts to go against the natural process of life and death. And like in beating the rabbit, modern science often creates further needless suffering in the process. Of course it all hinges on the individual's wishes, which unlike a rabbit can often be communicated prior to action being taken.

Of course the individual isn't given a say in the matter, and instead is usually forced to suffer until the day that they inevitably pass away.

11-30-2011, 04:19 AM	#24
XGoFivk7 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 419 Senior Member	I hadn't realised that life was not for playing with and the rabbit still had its life to play out. It was not prepared for death and wanted none of it. Thanks for sharing your experiences, it must have been traumatic to have experienced that as a child. I do not see a rabbit being killed against its will as the same as a person consciously wishing to die (especially if the body likely would have died already if not for modern science forcing the individual to hold on). Both beating the rabbit, and modern science holding onto life, are human attempts to go against the natural process of life and death. And like in beating the rabbit, modern science often creates further needless suffering in the process. Of course it all hinges on the individual's wishes, which unlike a rabbit can often be communicated prior to action being taken. Of course the individual isn't given a say in the matter, and instead is usually forced to suffer until the day that they inevitably pass away.
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