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- From: watson@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (John S. Watson - FSC)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: PBS Elementary/Secondary Service
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.061802.17048@riacs.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 06:18:02 GMT
- References: <1992Jul25.075320.11055@ke4zv.uucp> <1992Jul27.172754.3407@beaver.cs.washington.edu> <JMC.92Jul27174238@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <JMC.92Jul27174238@SAIL.Stanford.EDU> jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU writes:
- >5. Morality is a human invention, and human morality at present
- >doesn't go very far in granting rights to viruses, bacteria,
- >beetles and whales. The fact that some humans don't want whales
- >killed has some force, just for that reason. By expressing their
- >preference as a matter of rights, they have succeeded in avoiding
- >the question of what they should pay to get others to honor their
- >preference.
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- Too bad you weren't around 120 plus years ago,
- we could have avoided the Civil War.
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- >The Nature Conservancy has my respect, because they express their
- >preference for conserving nature by *buying* the land containing the
- >nature they want to preserve.
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- Are they the John Browns of our time?
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- "My eye have seen the glory ..."
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- John S. Watson, Civil Servent from Hell ARPA: watson@ames.arc.nasa.gov
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- HOMEBREW NAKED! --- Ursus cerevisiae nudium (The Bare Beer Bear)
- All right, then, I'll GO to hell" --- Mark Twain
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