[lbo-talk] Vegetarianism

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 1 13:40:20 PDT 2005


--- Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
>>
> --How would I decide? Collaborative decision making
> among the
> affected parties.

Animals cannot engage in collaborative decision making. Neither can retarded people.

BTW why is it that the life of a cow, that can walk around, recognize others, moo when it is happy and bay in agony when it is killed, less valuable than that a human (in terms of composition of amino acids, layout of DNA, and body shape) born with nothing but a brainstem? This makes no sense at all.

This whole conversation strikes me as nuts. Who but a sociopath says that feeling pain is not a central element of selfhood? Miles, is torture of animals morally neutral?

Nu, zayats, pogodi!

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