[lbo-talk] Become a vegetarian or rot in hell!!! (Mea maxima culpa from Miles)

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Tue Nov 7 11:23:52 PST 2006


Chris Doss wrote:


>Yes, it does. Not with metaphysical certainty, but I
>have no more doubt that dogs suffer than I do that
>human beings do. They certainly act like it.
>Alternately I could maintain without any reason for
>thinking so that they are simply highly complicated
>automata, but that would be perverse.
>
>
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On reflection about this thread, I have to apologize to Chris, ravi, John, et al. Asking for logical and evidentiary justification for moral beliefs, as I did near the beginning of this thread, is a pointless pedantic exercise. My points are pretty much analogous to a biochemist giving a Catholic a hard time because the Catholic cannot provide a reasonable scientific explanation for the transubstantiation of wine into blood. As Woj pointed out earlier, morals are a matter of social consensus; the question of whether or not the moral principles are based on scientific evidence or logical reasoning is completely irrelevant. Thus I want to emphasize to the discussants in the thread that I do in fact recognize and respect your moral position on this issue, although I do not share your view. Mea maxima culpa,

Miles



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