So, what did you decide? Most people in my class said that it was the same. That dropping the daughter off was just as bad as dropping the donkey off. This is actually highly odd. The 'Christian Union' has recently seen a resurgence in our school. I admit that some people truly believe but, being a skeptic, I add that it involves one friendship group, free chocolate and an opportunity to meet people from the girl's school. Great! Anyway, all the Christian Union members said that it was the same. But, in the Bible, it says that humans were made in 'the image of God'. This means that we are on a par with him. It also applies that humans are greater than the animal kingdom. We were created on a different day to them. In Corinthians it says that we are temples of God. Surely this puts us above the animal kingdom. What a load of drivel! But it promotes my atheist point of view so who cares?
So, what do I think? I think it is different. But not, I think and hope, because I believe humans are in any way above animals. The story involves and old, decrepid donkey. What quality of life would it have? It might be a mercy to kill it. Whilst the daughter is young. It has the whole of it's life ahead of it. Also, it has relatives who would be upset by its passing. Do donkey's have family connections in this way at that age? Do they mourn? Do they understand. This obviously raises two interesting questions. Is it ever right to kill, or aid death? What concepts do animals understand, how do they perceive the world? But those are for another time.
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The Donkey and the Daughter - Part Two
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Would the answer be different if the donkey was young and the daughter old?
I think it boils down to what would you say if one of them had to be thrown off the tower (to save the world or something)? I think everyone would choose to throw off the donkey. Except, possibly, for God.
 | robertusrex [Member] 2007-10-19 @ 17:46 |
No, I don't think it would be different. It would just be a lot harder. I think it would mean that throwing the daughter of was out of the question. But the donkey has such a life ahead of it. Or does it? What quality of life does a donkey have? Oh, and God would chose the donkey too. We are made in the image of God. In the Bible (if you believe it) we are set aside from the animal kingdom. Our bodies our temples of him (Corinthians). I think this means that he would have to throw the donkey of. Does that sound like a kind, caring, benevolent God?
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