Clearing one's conscience

[GrouchoMarxist]

I was gonna do that... but then I wouldn't have had enough room for the Second Amendment.

Good call. Now you can go around saying that your unit was given a favorable ruling by the scotus.

All I can do is sing Golden Helmet of Mambrino

 

[GrouchoMarxist]

Well, the thread drifted a bit. I didn't mean it as "Should lions be eaten?", which is where it seemed to go. My original intent was "Is paying an animal rescue group to clear one's conscience of eating a threatened species an appropriate way to atone?" and "Should the rescue group take the money, or were they right to refuse it?"

http://www.azcentral.com/community/mesa/articles/2010/06/28/20100628mesa-lion-burgers-arizona-rescue-abrk0628.html

Jennifer Berry, of Arizona Rescue, said in his original email Selogie offered to donate either $100 or $2.50 per burger sold and asked them for permission to use their name when he emailed and posted in response to the protests. Berry said she was planning to return the donation, because they did not want to "profit from the killing of cats, albeit lions."

"You don't get to kill one cat and give to another," Berry said.

I can see Selogie's logic, but I don't know about Berry.