Re: Animal Rights
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Originally Posted by acropolis
i agree not to torture, eat, mutilate, assault, or otherwise painfully violate other human beings partly on the principle that they have made a similar agreement with respect to me.
not to say that i'm down with torturing animals, but just to say that 'humans are just like any other animals' isn't fair,
humans are animals that can be on the record as not planning to chew on my still-living body.
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I'm not saying that it's wrong to hurt or kill a creature in self-defence but that is a different issue. It is not the same as breeding pigs to slaughter them, what threat is the pig posing?
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