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From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: vegetarianism
Message-ID: <262@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Jan-86 21:46:01 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 15 21:46:01 1986
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In article <75900003@hpfclg.UUCP> neutron@hpfcla.UUCP 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 ?
>> Face it, it's a fact that animals kill for food.  Why should humans
>> have to feel guilty about it ?
>
> Shall we hold up the wild animals as models to follow?  As
> examples?  Yes, carnivorous animals (I use "animals" here as
> excluding man) *are* amoral.  So are herbivorous animals.  They
> are dumb animals, and hence the question of morals does not apply
> to them.  Man, however, has the intelligence to rise up above the
> behavior of the beasts.  To use his mind.

What do you eat, then?  Why is it not moral to eat animals but ok to eat
plants?

[ This is not being put in net.veg because to have an interesting debate
  on this topic, one must have carnivores represented, and I would
  assume that net.veg is mostly full of weed eaters (:-)) ]
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