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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Vegetarians
Message-ID: <173@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 01:28:40 EST
Article-I.D.: hadron.173
Posted: Mon Jan  6 01:28:40 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jan-86 06:48:34 EST
References: <75900002@hpfclg.UUCP  <325@uwai.UUCP  <326@uwai.UUCP <328@uwai.UUCP> <411@mordred.purdue.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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Summary: To ethic is human ...

In article <411@mordred.purdue.UUCP> avr@purdue.UUCP (Andrew V. Royappa) writes:
>                                      ... What about the vast number
>of carnivorous animals out there ? Are they all amoral, too, or do
>these ethical considerations apply to humans only ?

What???  So far, on this planet, most ethical systems have been
considered strictly for human beings: animals are intrinsically
amoral insofar as they are incapable of abstractions.  (Except
maybe cats and dolphins and various pongoids and ... [;-)])
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}