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- From: itsmine@med.unc.edu (Greg Popken)
- Subject: Re: Books review- "Free the Animals" By Ingrid Newkirk
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:32:22 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.151140.26696@cs.mun.ca> ac@riemann.math.mun.ca (Alka Chandna) writes:
- >itsmine@med.unc.edu (Greg Popken) writes:
- >
- >>In article Alka Chandna writes:
- >
- >>> In an incredibly believable manner, Newkirk slips in quotations
- >>>by everyone from Mahatma Gandhi ("The greatness of a nation and its moral
- >>>progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals") to Jeremy Bentham
- >>>("The question is not, can they reason? Nor, can they speak? But, can they
- >>>suffer?") to Leonardo daVinci ("The day will come when we will look upon the
- >>>murder of beasts as we now look upon the murder of men") to Martin Luther
- >>>King ("An unjust law is no law at all"). Peter Singer's utilitarian argument
- >>>finds its way into the pages of the novel, as does Tom Regan's rights and
- >>>responsibilities spiel.
- >
- >>Did she mention Hitler? The Nazis introduced some sweeping
- >>antivivisection laws in the 30's.
- >
- >Let's try to remember some basic principles of logic. If the Nazis introduced
- >some "sweeping antivivisections laws", does it follow that antivivisectionists
- >in general are Nazis?
-
- I couldn't agree more.
- Nor does the use us of pro-AR quotes from famous people lend credence to
- the movement.
-
- >
- >The sort of thinking that allows for the existence of exploiters and
- >populations to be exploited is exactly what Nazism is all about, exactly
- >what the notion of a Master Race is all about, exactly what the notion of
- >a Master Species (or "crown of creation") is all about.
-
- So now I'm a Nazi, huh?
-
- Greg Popken
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