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- From: g9rwaigh@cdf.toronto.edu (Rosemary Waigh)
- Subject: Re: Killing animals (was Re: hunting dog wanted)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.032021.11711@cdf.toronto.edu>
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- References: <4078@isgtec.isgtec.com> <1993Jan25.142223.20600@cdf.toronto.edu> <1993Jan25.184523.20174@spdc.ti.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:20:21 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.184523.20174@spdc.ti.com> achenbac@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Jeff Achenbach) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.142223.20600@cdf.toronto.edu> g9rwaigh@cdf.toronto.edu (Rosemary Waigh) writes:
- >>A question for you: do you think it is ok to painlessly kill humans?
- >
- >Certainly. Or painfully, if warranted.
-
- Is it always okay to painlessly kill humans? Suppose someone breaks into
- your house and gives you a lethal injection as you sleep - has a wrong been
- done? (I think so.)
-
- >I consider it necessary to my mental health, and do not consider a veggie
- >diet an acceptable alternative to one which includes lean red meat.
-
- I think you are trivializing mental illness here, to compare it to the
- mild and temporary inconvenience involved in making a few changes to your diet.
- --
- 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
-