--- Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
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>
> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Chris Doss wrote:
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> I guess it's an epistemological problem: how do you
> know?
How do I know that Miles Jackson is a sentient being and experiences pain? ;)
You beat a cat -- cat howls in agony and suffers psychological damage.
You beat a cabbage -- the cabbage rolls around the room quietly.
To me, this is a no-brainer. (I am not a vegetarian, although I should be.)
I read Singer's Animal Liberation as a kid (I was probably about 12) by accident in the SDSU library and it made a big impression on me -- I can still remember the cover. I;m not saying I understood it, but I remember that his descriptions of the "lives" of animals in factory farms stuck with me for a long time.
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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