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( 11 ) should enjoy such a general massacre of the innocents-for if he was a god, he should protect his creatures, if he was a god's messenger, or a founder of religion he should protect his followers, and if he was a king he should protect his subjects, he said he was “God's Wrath " which had visited the people.
Killing for Trade in Bone & Leather.
The shooting of elephants for the sake of their tusks has assumed so serious proportions, that it is predicted that the elephant will be extinct in Africa within 50 years. Ivory is so valuable that people who have nothing else to do, turn to the game of elephant shooting and amass a fortune in a short time. Carried by greed, a group of aviators dropped several bombs from the sky on a herd of elephants. A number of them were killed outright, and many lay wounded. But most of the ivory was blown to bits by bombs, and the greedy aviators got much disappointment as a result of the cruel killing. Elephant meat also commands a high price in the local markets.
Plucking feathers of live birds and the skinning of living animals, for the sake of their feathers and skins, are facts which can not be denied. These are some of the worst forms of cruelty which can be imagined.
Kill the Killer.
hill the harmful before ،، قتل الموزي قبل الايذا The doctrine
harm is caused " is very often relied upon as a justification for killing. If a serpent, a tiger, a scorpion, or a wolf, suddenly appears, the first impulse with those who believe in the doctrine of "Killing the injurer before he injures” or with the vast majority of people, who are swayed by vague fear, is to kill. Fear stupefies the intellect and drowns all thinking faculty, It is a false idea, a baseless notion, which has, like many others, become too common indeed, that such an animal or reptile is the enemy of man; and that it is its nature to attack. In truth it never intends harm by nature or instinct. The fang of the serpent, the claws of a tiger, the jaws of a wolf or the sting of a scorpion are its protective weapons, designed for self-protection when attacked. They
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