Be Kind To Lobsters?

Mark Shea links to a story about efforts to reduce the pain lobsters feel before we cruel humans consume them. Then he adds this commentary:

Sin Doesn't Just Make You Stupid. In it's extreme forms, it makes you crazy.

That's why a culture that murders 1.5 million of its kids each year and struggles to preserve the God-given right to stick scissors in a baby's brain obsesses over how to mercifully kill a lobster.

I think it's displacement: "Oh, but I'm not an inhuman monster! Sure, I approve of sticking scissors in a baby's brain. But look how tenderly I fret about lobsters! I'm really quite a lovely person!"

Well said.