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- From: g9rwaigh@cdf.toronto.edu (Rosemary Waigh)
- Subject: Re: Killing animals (was Re: hunting dog wanted)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.030225.10756@cdf.toronto.edu>
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- Organization: University of Toronto Computing Disciplines Facility
- References: <4078@isgtec.isgtec.com> <1993Jan25.142223.20600@cdf.toronto.edu> <C1F748.Ezv@ecf.toronto.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:02:25 GMT
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- In article <C1F748.Ezv@ecf.toronto.edu> pelton@ecf.toronto.edu (PELTON MATTHEW ALAN) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.142223.20600@cdf.toronto.edu> g9rwaigh@cdf.toronto.edu (Rosemary Waigh) writes:
- >>2. Animals are sentient. They care whether they live or die. To kill
- >> them is to go against their wishes. Killing non-human animals is wrong
- >> for the same reasons that killing human animals is wrong.
- >
- > And what is that reason?
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- Because it fails to take their interests into account.
- >
- >>A question for you: do you think it is ok to painlessly kill humans?
- >
- > No. I start with the principle that it is wrong to kill people. What
- >principle do you start with.
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- Consideration for others.
-
- > Also -- do you really think animals are conscious?
-
- I think they are conscious enough to notice they are being injured or killed,
- and object to it.
- --
- Rosemary Waigh Undergraduate, Computer Science / Linguistics
- g9rwaigh@cdf.utoronto.ca University of Toronto
- "You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is
- concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." - Emerson
-