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- From: jk@panix.com (Jim Kalb)
- Subject: Re: Jim, the chastity belt theory ... [torturing cats]
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.175044.3029@panix.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:50:44 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.220557.23514@panix.com> <1ecpmpINN2vp@news.aero.org> <1992Nov19.151140.13819@panix.com> <1ei7nmINNc3e@news.aero.org>
- Organization: Institute for the Human Sciences
- Keywords: forced childbirth
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- In <1ei7nmINNc3e@news.aero.org> zeus@aero.org (Dave Suess) writes:
-
- > As far as I know, the offense committed by a cat-torturer
- > is an offense against the senses and sensibilities of *other*
- > *people,* in a class with public nudity and maintaining a
- > smelly mess in one's own back yard.
-
- That seems wrong -- I don't think people who favor laws against
- torturing cats would be satisfied by laws against the public torture
- of cats that permitted people to engage in such conduct as long as it
- was kept under wraps.
- --
- Jim Kalb (jk@panix.com)
- "Alles Erworbne bedroht die Maschine, solange
- sie sich erdreistet, im Geist, statt im Gehorchen, zu sein." (Rilke)
-