Hooray for Seabiscuit

This posting originally appeared here: http://www.jewcy.com/dialogue/2007-05-14/living_is_killing?page=1#comment-9237

Seabiscuit, your intuition has guided you rightly, your thoughts are a jumble only because you haven't yet had time to sort it all out and figure out why your intuition is right. Normally, a person should investigate/consider a moral question with their mind open to the possibility that their intuition is wrong. However, in this case, I'll save you the time and energy and just confirm for you that you're right.

One bit of advice: if you choose to learn more about vegetarianism, don't let hippy organic-fruity environutz drum circlers convince you that that's what vegetarianism is about. You say "i am a vegetarian because i believe it si wrong to kill animals." And as you then suggest, the wrongness of killing them has to do with the fact that they "can feel." You've already got the ethical core of vegetarianism right there. The other stuff has nothing to do with it.