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Now even spiders, squid and lobsters could have rights, and about time too!
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On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:01:27 GMT, "Dutch" wrote: wrote On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:27:06 GMT, "Dutch" wrote: wrote On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:08:10 GMT, Rudy Canoza If animals had the same rights as humans it wouldn't prevent them being killed by our lifestyles - just as humans are - but some could be saved. Animals are not killed "just as humans are", not even remotely. They are for oil as in Iraq. And what in your room or office does not depend on oil? War is not the archetype for human moral behaviour, in fact human morals are essentially set aside when we wage war. That is why this is a false analogy, we are not at war with animals. Nonsense. War is as much human behaviour as peace So you essentially have declared war on animals? That's what you are implying. The valid analogy in this case is human labour laws and the endangerment of the public, especially workers. This is strongly mitigated against in the case of humans, no such mitigation is contemplated nor even plausible in the case of animals. All part of human behaviour. So is murder and rape, neither presents an analogy for normal, moral human behaviour. Animals are killed systematically, deliberately and in great numbers with very little effort to mitigate their suffering, except in the case of livestock. Human deaths are rare by comparison, and great efforts are taken to avoid them. Yes, we could save some animals from being killed, but there's no particular reason why we should choose to save the ones we use for food and other useful products. Lets have some specifics in detail. A single pass of farm machinery through a field decimates the population of field mice, toads, lizards, or whatever has taken up residence there. Then there are pesticides, herbicides, and chemical fertilizers to finish the job. Absolutely. But if we didn't eat produce from the land we'd not survive. Indeed, there's another way the analogy with war fails. We could survive quite well without ever waging war on one another, in fact much better. War is an aberration in human behaviour, more like murder and rape, and not like food production at all. So, as I have said, we all kill wildlife in our daily lives. Right, so why are you and other vegan-types so accepting of the deliberate, systematic and widespread destruction of wildlife yet you see the killing of livestock as brutal and immoral? It's a shrill, hysterical, antisocial and illogical way to think. Both are simply part of daily life, the production and gathering of food. You're contradicting yourself above. In what way? Read what you wrote. Be more specific. I can't see where I contradicted myself. So we all kill animals and humans and that's why your argument is crap. That is a lame response. Not at all; it's fact. The argument has no merit at all. Animals being killed is part of everyday life, the process of feeding and clothing ourselves, it is not analagous to war which is the very antithesis of everyday life. Very much analogous. Wars are part of everyday life. It's inconsistent and frankly rather disturbing that you view war and the killing of wildlife both as part of everyday life, yet you see the killing of livestock, which are raised to be food, as brutal and immoral. You have everything upside down. |
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