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- From: trzyna@CS.ColoState.EDU (wayne trzyna)
- Subject: Re: Abbey bashing.
- Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
- Message-ID: <Nov17.213846.66267@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:38:46 GMT
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- In article <27614@oasys.dt.navy.mil> oreagan@oasys.dt.navy.mil (William Oreagan) writes:
- >In rec.backcountry, trzyna@CS.ColoState.EDU (wayne trzyna) writes:
- >!Christian sentiments asside, the loss of a snake is a tragedy. The
- >!loss of a human is insignificant, or possibly a blessing. (This all
- >
- >This self deprecation has always annoyed me. The snake surely doesn't
- >think ITS demise is more desirable than YOURS. But if you truly feel
- >that way, Goodbye.
-
- Ah, I was waiting for the flames to ignite. After all, you can't
- simply toss Christian sentiments aside, in a Christian culture.
- (Even the athiest reader's views are likely a product of this
- Christian Milieu.)
-
- Here's a question: Is a single human life worth more than the lives
- of all the snakes in the world? How about all the snakes plus all the
- mice? Yes? How about the snakes plus the mice plus all the chimpanzees?
- We laugh at those who once thought the earth was the center of the
- universe, yet we still believe humanity to be the center of the biosphere.
-
- The fact that the snake doesn't "think" implies only that the snake
- isn't guilty of stupidity.
-
- --
-
- -Wayne Trzyna
- trzyna@CS.ColoState.EDU
-