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Default Want to be a vegetarian


"LordSnooty" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 05:21:59 GMT, swamp >
> wrote:
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> >On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:20:23 GMT, frlpwr > wrote:
> >
> >>Jon wrote:
> >>
> >>(snip)
> >>
> >>> "vegans", or so-called
> >>> "ethical vegetarians", engage in a classic logical
> >>> fallacy: Denying the Antecedent. It runs like this:
> >>>
> >>> If I eat meat, I cause animals to suffer and die.
> >>>
> >>> I do not eat meat;
> >>>
> >>> Therefore, I do not cause animals to suffer and die.
> >>
> >>Why do you refuse to be corrected on this point?
> >>
> >>The above should go like this:
> >>
> >> If I eat meat, I cause farmed animals to suffer and die.
> >>
> >> I do not eat meat;
> >>
> >> Therefore, I do not cause farmed animals to suffer and die.

> >
> >As long as we're shooting for accuracy, it should be:
> >
> >If I eat meat, I cause farmed animals to suffer and die.
> >
> >I do not eat meat, therefore, I do not cause farmed animals to suffer
> >and die,

>
> Very good.
>
> >and make this point because it helps me ignore the death and
> >suffering my own diet causes.

>
> What death and suffering? you have scientific, peer reviewed data that
> a particular company, farm, product is a direct cause of wildlife
> deaths? if so, show them and we can analyze your proof. Nothing allows
> us to ignore any deaths of animals or humans.

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It's been posted many times loser. That you continue to ignore it won't
make it go away, no matter how much you wish it, killer.



>
> >Demonizing others is less painful than accepting my own role in life
> >and death.

>
> You demonize yourselves and simply cannot stand the fact there
> actually are some nice, caring people out there, who do things for the
> benefits of others and nothing else, even so, since when has feeling
> good about oneself been a crime?

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whan you're killing others to make yourself feel sanctimonious, killer...


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> Snip it there, KISS.
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> 'You can't win 'em all.'
> Lord Haw Haw.