killing animals for art Options

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do you think it's okay to kill animals for art?

i do not support it, but it's not different than what society already does. people kill animals for fashion. shoes, belts, coats, ect. people kill animals for meat. these things are 'okay'. not only okay, but something people want. people hunt for sport then go stuffing the bodies and heads of animals to hang them on a wall.

we don't need meat to live. we don't have to wear real fur, you could wear faux fur...none of them are necessary. you could live without meat. art isn't necessary to live. however, she could of used a different way to get her point across, such as painting,

if she killed any animal but 'cute fluffy things' would anyone even care? if she used spiders, ants, roaches, i doubt anyone would think there was even an issue.

[Spirited Away]

- this should not be done for moral reasons, as the morality of killing animals is that they are animals and not HUMANS so they don't have HUMAN rights.

"Justice is the highest principle of ethics. We are not to commit or permit injustice so that good may come, not to violate the rights of the few so that the many might benefit. Slavery allowed this. Child labor allowed this. Most examples of social injustice allow this. But not the philosophy of animal rights, whose highest principle is that of justice: No one has a right to benefit as a result of violating another's rights, whether that "other" is a human being or some other animal."

"The reasons for legal intervention in favor of children apply not less strongly to the case of those unfortunate slaves -- the (other) animals"

- John Stuart Mill

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be measured by the way its animals are treated."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals."

-- Peter Singer

3. on the art-

art should not be censored. this is art. taxadermists stuff animals all the time. mice and cats are quite common... they'll be killed anyways in shelters. (don't mention no-kill shelters, those are terrible. they're streched too thin and all the animals suffer... )

Art should not be censored? What about the case of displaying dead babies?