Morally Commendable

Submitted by Michoel Zeldis (United States), Jul 24, 2003 at 18:48

Lee Harris speaks like a true Christian. Turning the other cheek and letting the lions eat you is morally commendable. Well, Lee Harris is wrong. There is nothing morally commendable about letting animals or humans kill you, your family and friends and then trying to pacify them with yesterday's or today's pet food.

When you are constantly being attacked by a pack of wild animals, you destroy the animals, plain and simple and save other human lives. It is not morally commendable to turn the other cheek so that the lions can eat the Christians, Jews or anyone they desire. Killing the lions is the only commendable moral act. Then you can feed the pet food to the kittens.

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