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- From: bgarfink@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (beth diane garfinkel)
- Subject: Re: ATUI: The Liberal Position, and Why it is Morally Incorrect
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:18:06 GMT
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- In <BxqA3H.J4y@news.cso.uiuc.edu> parker@ehsn21.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker) writes:
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- >As an example of that, suppose that there is only a single living pig left in
- >all the world. We have a responsibility not to wipe out that species and so
- >we make it illegal to kill pigs (back when there were a few more). Suppose
- >this pig lives on a special island that no one is allowed to travel to.
- >Suppose, now, that a person is lost overboard in a storm and ends up on this
- >island. Suppose all the vegitation is either posionous or non-nutritional and
- >that all other animals are either impossible to catch or are not good to eat.
- >Are you going to tell us that this person does not have the right to kill that
- >last pig for food? The *person* has a right to live. The pig does not. The
- >person *should not* kill the pig, unless there is a *good reason* (like he needs
- >it for food and that's all there is, or the pig was attacking him and would
- >have killed or seriously hurt him).
-
- Very minor nitpick, but if there's only one living pig left in the
- world, essentially, we already HAVE killed off the entire species; one
- needs two, one of each sex, so that they can reproduce, in order for
- them to remain a viable species. . .
- Beth
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- "This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays."
- -Arthur Dent, on being told that the Earth is about to blow up.
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