[Peace-discuss] Iraq and Animal Abuse.. a connection

[Jason Pitzl-Waters]

>what do you think are the flaws in the article i wrote

Where to start? To be brief, your 'article' makes a lot of accusations and 
stands that are indefensible and make points that are overly simplistic.

If you want to link say hunting with a lack of regard for human life (as 
you attempt to do in your article) then you shouldn't just try to pull 
together a list of hunters that have snapped, one could very easily make a 
list of killer dentists, or killer gardeners, or killer college professors. 
Human history is full of people who have gone beyond the pale' and have 
transgressed the morality of the times in every walk of life. The theory 
needs to be proven on a wide scale by polling a representative sample of 
hunters who have been questioned about their attitudes towards human life, 
site relevant studies on the matter and then come to a conclusion, and then 
if your research supports it you could say that it seems there is a 
connection between a lack of regard for human life and the hunting of 
animals for sport and food.

Speaking of the cases, many of the ones you site, when looked at 
critically, fall apart as examples of animal abuse and it's connection to 
violence on human beings. Just because Jeffrey Dahmer became "fascinated" 
with "dead flesh" in high-school labs doesn't mean that this lead to his 
psychotic tendencies. Even a shallow look into his past points to a history 
of abuse, neglect, alcoholism and rejection from his peers. Yet you truly 
think it was his lab class that threw him over the edge into killing? Also, 
as far as I know, the Jack The Ripper case has never been closed. To list 
it with your big lists of killers undermines the rest of the list.

You paint with a broad brush and throw around accusations. You parrot 
PETA's party line without question, and I'm betting that most of this 
article is lifted from PETA or PETA-sponsored web sites, and while PETA has 
some noble goals they are also an admittedly biased organization when it 
comes to their causes.

After all that you then fail to explain how this is relevant to the 
situation in Iraq. In fact while you bring up Iraq in the subject line it 
hardly comes up in the main body of your article. You never explain the 
"connection" and how the awareness of that connection could somehow help 
the situation in Iraq.

In respect,

Jason Pitzl-Waters
http://www.wildhunt.org/