Kill the Killers
Apparently, morality demands we kill all predators.
One delightful characteristic of our species homo sapiens is that as soon as we achieve some measure of safety from inclement weather and the unwanted attention of predators, we begin to drift slowly but ineluctably away from reality. Whether one toils through the constipated musings of Kant or the lefty-trendy posturing of Derrida, a common thread of self-indulgent solipsism runs through all the supposedly worthy tomes and renders them little more than self-aggrandizing toilet paper.
Fortunately, with the development of empirically-based science over the last couple of hundred years, philosophy has shriveled and invaginated up its own fundament. Today, most philosophers pleasantly waste their time courtesy of comfortable academic tenure and for the most part they remain harmless nobodies, content with their self-reflexive obscurantism. Every once in a while, however, thanks to some strange combination of the mass media looking for a new sensation and a subtle shift in the zeitgeist, a few of these dusty drudges are hauled into the limelight and their ideas are promulgated to the hapless masses.
At the present time we are experiencing, on the fringes, such an event. A subset of vegans are no longer content merely to bore everyone else senseless with their assertions of moral…
