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- From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)
- Newsgroups: talk.philosophy.misc
- Subject: Re: Vegitarianism
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.165552.3350@cnsvax.uwec.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 22:55:51 GMT
- Organization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
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- [reply to stcmille@panix.com]
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- >Ommm - why is it morally superior to kill a plant than to kill an
- >animal?
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- Because the animal is sentient
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- >Selfish DNA makes it quite clear that often the "moral" thing to do is
- >to kill one's non-relatives.
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- Instinctual behavior is not necessarily moral behavior
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- >Or if increase is not the arbiter of morality, hell, what is?
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- You have confused "moral" with "pragmatic"
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- >I have problems believing the argument that it is immoral to kill
- >animals.
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- Looks more like problems understanding the argument to me.
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- David Nye
- nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu
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