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Old 10-07-2007, 03:59 AM posted to talk.politics.animals,uk.environment.conservation,misc.rural,uk.rec.gardening,alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian
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Default Now even spiders, squid and lobsters could have rights, and about time too!

"Rupert" wrote

It's your job to state the mechanism whereby my behaviour causes
animal deaths. You've utterly failed to meet this obligation. I've
generously been helping you out by suggesting possible mechanisms.


Listen to how self-serving and condescending you sound, referring to
yourself as "generous". Then you squeal like an infant about verbal abuse.
You earn every bit of verbal abuse you get, and then some.

You sponsor animal deaths by using a computer, because a computer uses hydro
and hydro production causes animal deaths. If your use of a computer is not
directly related to your survival then you are causing unecessary animal
deaths. Does that indictment sound familar? This same principle applies to
every part of your life where you consume anything more than you require to
survive. Even if you consider those few activities which truly *are*
necessary for your survival, you still could not do them if those deaths
were humans. That's how different your real lifestyle is compared to the
pie-in-the-sky ideas you spout.