Re: Pioneering animals rights

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Goo wrote:

>On Tue, 22 Apr 2008,  dh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 quoted the Goober:
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>>"The meaningless fact-lette that farm animals "get to 
>>experience life" deserves no consideration when asking 
>>whether or not it is moral to kill them.  Zero.
>>
>>no matter how "decent" the conditions are, the deliberate killing 
>>of the animals erases all of it.
>>
>>the moral harm caused by killing them is greater in magnitude 
>>than ANY benefit they might derive from "decent lives"
>>
>>you MUST believe that it makes moral sense not to raise the 
>>animals as the only way to prevent the harm that results from 
>>killing them.
>>
>>Humans could change it. They could change it by ending it.
>>
>>There is no "selfishness" involved in wanting farm animals not to 
>>exist as a step towards creating a more just world." - Goo
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>>We can clearly see that providing domestic animals with
>>decent lives of positive value and appreciation of that
>>aspect of our relation****p with them, works directly *against*
>>what these people are trying to accomplish and the way they
>>want everyone to think about human influence on animals.
>
>David Harrison - does not care about the welfare of animals. 

    Explain why you don't want people to consider the fact that
many livestock animals have decent lives of positive value, Goo.
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