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	<description>Nothing is wrong unless you harm someone against their will</description>
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		<title>Comment on In a debate concerning zoophilia&#8230; by Pale</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pale</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi KarmaSlave!

I think, I actually am a Zoo myself. Like a few others I once tried to fight for being accepted. I had a site online, describing my life and my problems, but I closed it (see website link) due to the points I wrote there.

Have you ever heard of the &quot;ZETA-Rules&quot;? I always considered them as the absolute minimum, the most basic law in zoophilia. Something you don´t have to discuss.
One day some other &quot;Zoo&quot; in a chatroom told me something like this:
&quot;Oh... these Rules... aw... they´re just for making those animal-rights-guys quiet, aren´t they?!?&quot;
As a matter of fact I got shocked that day. I decided not to pull the cart for those who don´t take it serious any more. I will never protect Black Sheep.
Like you showed up, it wouldn´t help to make Zoophilia illegal. In the contrary: There would be no chance to distinguish between the Animalreaper an the real Zoophiles. Like you already said, there´s no black and white, but always grey. Grey a little darker or a bit lighter.

Back that day I thought about to restrict Zoophilia in a way, that would make animal abuse more difficult. Wouldn´t it be easier to avoid cruelty if Zoos have to proof their &quot;ways&quot; animal-friendly instead of the &quot;others&quot; have to proof the harm? Of course it would be hard to the Zoos, but I think it is what the Zoos should do anyway: Ruling out anything that might harm the animal. That´s what Zoophilia is like, or rather should be like, don´t you think?

I wouldn´t hesitate to negate my sexual identity in order to protect the animals. I started a vegan life some years ago only because of that....


Pale</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi KarmaSlave!</p>
<p>I think, I actually am a Zoo myself. Like a few others I once tried to fight for being accepted. I had a site online, describing my life and my problems, but I closed it (see website link) due to the points I wrote there.</p>
<p>Have you ever heard of the &#8220;ZETA-Rules&#8221;? I always considered them as the absolute minimum, the most basic law in zoophilia. Something you don´t have to discuss.<br />
One day some other &#8220;Zoo&#8221; in a chatroom told me something like this:<br />
&#8220;Oh&#8230; these Rules&#8230; aw&#8230; they´re just for making those animal-rights-guys quiet, aren´t they?!?&#8221;<br />
As a matter of fact I got shocked that day. I decided not to pull the cart for those who don´t take it serious any more. I will never protect Black Sheep.<br />
Like you showed up, it wouldn´t help to make Zoophilia illegal. In the contrary: There would be no chance to distinguish between the Animalreaper an the real Zoophiles. Like you already said, there´s no black and white, but always grey. Grey a little darker or a bit lighter.</p>
<p>Back that day I thought about to restrict Zoophilia in a way, that would make animal abuse more difficult. Wouldn´t it be easier to avoid cruelty if Zoos have to proof their &#8220;ways&#8221; animal-friendly instead of the &#8220;others&#8221; have to proof the harm? Of course it would be hard to the Zoos, but I think it is what the Zoos should do anyway: Ruling out anything that might harm the animal. That´s what Zoophilia is like, or rather should be like, don´t you think?</p>
<p>I wouldn´t hesitate to negate my sexual identity in order to protect the animals. I started a vegan life some years ago only because of that&#8230;.</p>
<p>Pale</p>
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		<title>Comment on Bare Feet by Alan S. Hochman Photography</title>
		<link>http://mercetron.com/blog/bare-feet/comment-page-1/#comment-1353</link>
		<dc:creator>Alan S. Hochman Photography</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 00:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Closeup of a Sandspur...&lt;/strong&gt;

I found your entry interesting so I&#039;ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog :)...</description>
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<p>I found your entry interesting so I&#8217;ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog <img src='http://mercetron.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> &#8230;</p>
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		<title>Comment on Barefoot Journals by KarmaSlave</title>
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		<dc:creator>KarmaSlave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 09:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As people have probably guessed, I&#039;m not updating this blog very often at all anymore. The longer it got, the more heavy and difficult it became to update it. But, I certainly haven&#039;t stopped barefooting, and most probably never will! For those interested, you can visit my totally barefoot twitter: http://twitter.com/KarmaPaw</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As people have probably guessed, I&#8217;m not updating this blog very often at all anymore. The longer it got, the more heavy and difficult it became to update it. But, I certainly haven&#8217;t stopped barefooting, and most probably never will! For those interested, you can visit my totally barefoot twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/KarmaPaw" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/KarmaPaw</a></p>
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		<title>Comment on In a debate concerning zoophilia&#8230; by HorseHelper</title>
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		<dc:creator>HorseHelper</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Those that ague against the act of bestiality, using the &quot;un-natural&quot; theory are pretty much the same people that believe the world is flat. They have no real scientific background to back their statements up, just years of unconscious indoctrinate bigotry to drive those feelings.
 BTW, I pretty much agree with everything you say here KS. i know what it is like to be a victim of the persecution/prosecution system here in the USA.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those that ague against the act of bestiality, using the &#8220;un-natural&#8221; theory are pretty much the same people that believe the world is flat. They have no real scientific background to back their statements up, just years of unconscious indoctrinate bigotry to drive those feelings.<br />
 BTW, I pretty much agree with everything you say here KS. i know what it is like to be a victim of the persecution/prosecution system here in the USA.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Barefoot Journals by Marga.FP</title>
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		<dc:creator>Marga.FP</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Playful, aren&#039;t you ?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Playful, aren&#8217;t you ?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Barefoot Journals by KarmaSlave</title>
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		<dc:creator>KarmaSlave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry, but for me to know reasonably well that you&#039;re not a bot, you&#039;ll have to mention SOMETHING that you agree/disagree with before I send any e-mail to you ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry, but for me to know reasonably well that you&#8217;re not a bot, you&#8217;ll have to mention SOMETHING that you agree/disagree with before I send any e-mail to you <img src='http://mercetron.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Comment on Barefoot Journals by Carlos</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carlos</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve been reading around and I agree and disagree with you at the sametime in different topics. The point is that it&#039;s diffocult to find reasonable people nowadays and I would like to know more about you. I guest you already have my email, so I&#039;ll be waiting for yours so we can talk and know each other.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been reading around and I agree and disagree with you at the sametime in different topics. The point is that it&#8217;s diffocult to find reasonable people nowadays and I would like to know more about you. I guest you already have my email, so I&#8217;ll be waiting for yours so we can talk and know each other.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Bare Feet by Keanu</title>
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		<dc:creator>Keanu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I like being barefoot when I can, but where I lived it was incredibly difficult with all the grassburs and stickers. Even inside my home it wasn&#039;t smart to go barefoot because of the off chance of stepping on a scorpion, which we had a lot of.

I remember one time I lost my shoes and I went to Wal-Mart to get me a new pair. The bastards wouldn&#039;t let me in though because they were doing some reconstruction in part of the building and if I accidently stepped on a shard of glass or something they were afraid that I would sue...fucking moronic.

While being barefoot when I can is great I think that there is something to be said about the empowering feeling of wearing steel toed combat boots :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like being barefoot when I can, but where I lived it was incredibly difficult with all the grassburs and stickers. Even inside my home it wasn&#8217;t smart to go barefoot because of the off chance of stepping on a scorpion, which we had a lot of.</p>
<p>I remember one time I lost my shoes and I went to Wal-Mart to get me a new pair. The bastards wouldn&#8217;t let me in though because they were doing some reconstruction in part of the building and if I accidently stepped on a shard of glass or something they were afraid that I would sue&#8230;fucking moronic.</p>
<p>While being barefoot when I can is great I think that there is something to be said about the empowering feeling of wearing steel toed combat boots <img src='http://mercetron.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Comment on Right and Wrong by Keanu</title>
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		<dc:creator>Keanu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can follow the logic, but there is a large amount a discomfort to it. I suppose one could say thats just due to the imprinting of those social norms from child hood. When I was 10-11 years of age I had a sexual experiance with a girl my age at the time. The only reason we never went through with the act was because I had been taught better and backed out in the end.

Our social norms may be the thing that makes something harmful when it may have no intrinsic harm in it, but I would like to think that there is something within human nature that isn&#039;t shaped by our social norms that tells us that, &quot;this is going to far,&quot; or &quot;this is too extreame.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can follow the logic, but there is a large amount a discomfort to it. I suppose one could say thats just due to the imprinting of those social norms from child hood. When I was 10-11 years of age I had a sexual experiance with a girl my age at the time. The only reason we never went through with the act was because I had been taught better and backed out in the end.</p>
<p>Our social norms may be the thing that makes something harmful when it may have no intrinsic harm in it, but I would like to think that there is something within human nature that isn&#8217;t shaped by our social norms that tells us that, &#8220;this is going to far,&#8221; or &#8220;this is too extreame.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Comment on Right and Wrong by KarmaSlave</title>
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		<dc:creator>KarmaSlave</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I hear you. And as I said, in the case of a man and a child, it will most probably lead to damage later on (indirectly, by learning our norms, morals, values and by victimization) even though the damage didn&#039;t occur at the time of the actual event. An adult should know these factors well, and thus have a responsibility, naturally. However - and this is the weird part - it doesn&#039;t have to be the &quot;perpetrator&quot; that inflicts the damage at all, but all the rest of us, teaching the child that the event that took place was wrong and hurtful, though it wasn&#039;t at the time (how does that make sense?)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hear you. And as I said, in the case of a man and a child, it will most probably lead to damage later on (indirectly, by learning our norms, morals, values and by victimization) even though the damage didn&#8217;t occur at the time of the actual event. An adult should know these factors well, and thus have a responsibility, naturally. However &#8211; and this is the weird part &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t have to be the &#8220;perpetrator&#8221; that inflicts the damage at all, but all the rest of us, teaching the child that the event that took place was wrong and hurtful, though it wasn&#8217;t at the time (how does that make sense?)</p>
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