----- Original Message ----- From: "ChrisD(RJ)" <chrisd at russiajournal.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 1:56 AM Subject: RE: Wojtek on Greens
> Works of art don't have preferences or personhood either. Is it holding
> human life cheap to shoot someone to keep them from destroying the Nike of
> Samothrace, or blowing up the pyramids? (Not totally a rhetorical
question.)
>
> Chris Doss
> The Russia Journal
If there were no other humans left to appreciate such treasures, yes. It's really pretty ridiculous to think of works of art or plants as ends in themselves.
-- Luke