Ethics

Ellis Washington on the Killer Whale

By Ed Brayton

Ellis Washington is following in the footsteps of the American Family Association in arguing that we should follow the Bible's instructions on how to deal with animals that kill humans. And by itself, I really couldn't care less what happens to this killer whale. I'm the furthest thing from an animal rights activist; I eat animals with enormous enjoyment and without apology (and I'd be more than happy to try whale meat if it was available).

But it's the arguments being made that we should kill the animals because the Bible says so that I find amusingly ridiculous. And Washington is not backing away from the implications of killing the whale's owners as the AFA did:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 08, 2010 (boomark / email).