Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site t12tst.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!sun!idi!t12tst!seshadri From: seshadri@t12tst.UUCP (Raghavan Seshadri) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Reply to Paul (categorizing things as non-human) Message-ID: <685@t12tst.UUCP> Date: Sun, 20-Oct-85 17:17:23 EDT Article-I.D.: t12tst.685 Posted: Sun Oct 20 17:17:23 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Oct-85 06:33:29 EDT References: <215@rosevax.UUCP> <1349@cbsck.UUCP> <1212@mhuxt.UUCP> Organization: Intel Microprocessor Mfg, Santa Clara Lines: 16 > From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) > Date: 11 Oct 85 18:00:45 GMT > Not only is this how slavery is justified, it's how killing cattle > for food is justified. It is also the means by which the keeping of > animal 'pets' is justified. The principle of not legally protecting > things outside the category of 'human being' is quite common and not > dangerous at all. > -- > Jeff Sonntag > ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j > Not dangerous to whom ? I agree that it is not dangerous to the person who kills the cattle.The animal probably does not have such a sanguine view. -- Raghu Seshadri