None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about talking about the moral status of animals, when we are killing and eating them for no reason whatsoever.
These birds and animals and fish cannot speak, but they can suffer, and our God who created them, knows their sufferings, and will hold him who causes them to suffer unnecessarily to answer for it. It is a sin against their Creator.
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
The last thing we want to do is to go into an area and inflict unnecessary civilian casualties. One is too many.
Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
Pity it is to slay the meanest thing.
To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?
