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- From: cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio)
- Subject: Re: Quote from ME
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- References: <23971@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> <1992Nov12.162153.1591@panix.com> <satdn4g@zola.esd.sgi.com> <1992Nov14.151657.8820@panix.com> <sen9tso@zola.esd.sgi.com> <Bxvwop.M1x@access.digex.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 00:39:06 GMT
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- In article <Bxvwop.M1x@access.digex.com>, roger@access.digex.com writes:
- |cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio) writes:
- |>In article <1992Nov14.151657.8820@panix.com>, jk@panix.com writes:
- |>|In <satdn4g@zola.esd.sgi.com|cj@eno.esd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio) writes:
- |>|>When nobody else is involved, nobody else has the right to
- |>|>interfere.
- |>|If my greatest joy in life is torturing cats to death, does anyone
- |>|else have the right to interfere?
- |>Are you destroying someone else's property?
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- |The local newspaper just had an item a few days ago concerning a man
- |who was convicted of beating his (underline his) puppy to death. Do you
- |think the state had a moral right to interfere with this man's puppy
- |beating, CJ?
-
- The phrase "moral right" seems a non-sequitur to me. (I would
- say, in fact, that the state shouldn't ever use "moral rights"
- as justication for laws. The state has no business making any
- statements about "morality".) The state might well decide that
- animals are worth protecting for non-"moral" reasons.
-
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- cj@eno.esd.sgi.com C J Silverio/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
- "It appeared to her that he did not excel in giving those clearer
- insights, in making those things plain which he had before made
- ambiguous." -- Jane Austen
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