Animal Rights
Talk about serendipity! Just when I got my membership kit from PETA, I get Priest-Kings of Gor which is so on the same topic, it's mind-blowing. The Priest-Kings have the same relationship to humans as we have to other species. Here's a little gem:
"What right have you to make the law for him?" I asked.
"The right of a higher-order organism to control a lower-order organism," said Sarm. "The same right you have to slaughter the bosk and the tabuk, to feed on the flesh of the tarsk."
"But those are not rational animals," I said.
"They are sentient," said Sarm.
"We kill them swiftly," I said.
Sarm's antennae curled. "And so too do we Priest-Kings commonly kill swiftly and yet you complain of our doing so."
"We need food," I said.
"You could eat fungus and other vegetables," said Sarm.
I was silent.
"The truth is," said Sarm, "that the human is a dangerous and predatory species."
"But those animals," I said, "are not rational."
"Is that so important?" asked Sarm.
"I don't know," I said. "What if I claimed it was?"
"Then I should reply," said Sarm, "that nothing below a Priest-King is truly rational." He looked down at me. "Remember that as you are to the bosk and the sleen so are we to you."
Terry
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