[lbo-talk] Invertebrate tool use

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 01:27:39 PST 2009


On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:31 AM, farmelantj at juno.com <farmelantj at juno.com>wrote:

If your criterion for the moral permissibility
> of killing and eating other animals is one
> of intelligence, then wouldn't Albert Einstein
> have had the moral right to eat just about
> anyone on this list, if he was into cannibalism?
>

But wasn't he obviously devoid of basic social and life skills? Why should we not all have gotten a bite of him instead?

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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