There are a lot of people out there who place all their faith in science. Science, however, is a slippery devil (pardon the pun). The same science that props up their lifestyle is made in many cases on the backs of things the people who worship at the altar of a lab bench in white robes of a false priesthood would find appalling.
I remember vividly in graduate school a particularly duplicitous bumper sticker I often saw. In the walk from the experimental farm where I often parked to the agriculture building where I worked, I passed a law office. One of these lawyers had a bumper sticker that said, "Thou shalt not kill. Go vegetarian." I was confused. I was studying plants. If they are not alive, was I wrong to feel bad about torturing them with salt water? What a convenient religion this man had!
The liberal religion is very convenient. It sees what it wishes to see. It investigates the obvious and ignores everything else. Consider for example just two products.
"Animal friendly faux leather" is actually plastic. This means it is made from oil, which means that everyone who complains about how oil is bad for the environment and then buys one of these is a hypocrite, having bought a product that props up Big Oil! You see, oil is a mainstay in our world. Without it, people who complain would not be able to do so because they would have no iphones, no internet, and in many cases no clothing. As they save the animals, some other product must compensate to satisfy the desires of a particular demographic.
Many of these people tout the health benefits of tofu over "antiboitic and hormone-laden beef". What they don't seem to realize is that tofu is made from soybeans, most of which, particularly in America, are Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). So, it's ok to add fish genes to a bean (for example) but not to add extra hormones, that a cow makes anyway, to a cow? While feasible that soy might eventually mutate to have those genes anyway, since we use clones in commercial crops, it's unlikely that the soy we consume will vary very much by 3050 from the version we eat today. Eating tofu isn't necessarily any healthier than the foods for which it serves as a substitute.
Most of these things are designed to make people feel better about themselves. They're not obviously involved in something that evokes an emotional response, and so they feel less guilty. You see, liberalism and liberal science are based less on facts and reason than they want you to think. If you face the facts, such as those presented here, their science is based on emotion. Just because something is less bad doesn't make it good, any more than a less rotted corpse is somehow more alive than a completely rotted one.
Plants are also living things. They are easier to catch, less messy when we kill them (except for things like tomatoes), they don't have cute faces, and they don't cry out in pain. However, without living plants there is no life anywhere. Just like animals, which are also there for the use of men, plants are there to be used by us. Human beings are however the only species on the planet of which I am aware who actively contribute to making their own species weaker. We will disenable raw materials for our own benefit to save bugs and weeds. We also prop up the weakest among us through medicine and because of their wealth who then reproduce and ensconce genetic weakness in the population. Humans are just as GMO as corn or soybeans; we just do it in the hospital and the bedroom rather than at the altar of a laboratory.
When I go hiking, people usually follow me. They know that I have probably been there before and that I turn around periodically to look at the trail. You see, it's easy to get lost if you haven't looked at things from any perspective than straight on. People don't recognize truth because they don't look at it from other angles and because they frequently look at it through glasses tinted by their own preconceived notions. As I have said elsewhere for a while now, most people are not really interested in the truth. They secretly hope the truth will corroborate what they already happen to believe. When you blind them with science, usually they just shut their eyes and refuse to see. Some people are wise; these people are otherwise.
O be wise. What can I say more?
