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- From: hiho@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark Peterson)
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- Subject: Re: Vegitarianism
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 15:37:28 GMT
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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- From article <C16vJo.KDy@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, by roholdr@ccu.umanitoba.ca (R Ross Holder Jr):
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- [...]
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- > I'm sure it's a product of being sentient; curiosity. Hence we seek
- > reasons. At any rate, if we don't have reasons for not murdering people -
- > some might be mistakenly led to conclude it would be okay. As creatures
- > of both instinct and reason, we have the capacity to distinguish pleasure
- > from pain; good from evil.
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- So reason can allow us to distinguish good from evil? Interesting.
- How do you answer Nietzsche?
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- hiho
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- The shorter the tether, the sooner the goat starves.
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