[lbo-talk] Invertebrate tool use

[Chris Doss]

Psst. The real reason we don't treat people like we do horses and cows is because of a very strong social taboo, not any kind of rational argument. Don't tell anyone. 

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From: "farmelantj at juno.com" <farmelantj at juno.com>
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Sent: Tue, December 15, 2009 8:55:03 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Invertebrate tool use

All that might be true but would
still be irrelevant to the argument
because if we did have (and I am
sure some exist) of people who are
so incapacitated that they have less
cognitive capacity than other non-human
mammals, we would still not regard
it to be morally permissible to treat
those persons the way we would treat
a horse or a cow.

Jim F.