"Jonathan Ball" > wrote in message link.net...
> Derek wrote:
> > "Bill" > wrote in message news
> >
> >>Your rotten explanation for your appalling
> >>inconsistency stinks.
> >>
> >>Killing animals for meat, and thoughtlessly killing
> >>them collaterally in the course of vegetable
> >>production, *both* reflect a failure or refusal to
> >>recognize what you claim is their intrinsic worth.
> >
> > No. It only proves that the farmer ignores the
> > inherent rights of his victims.
>
> He ignores them because you keep paying him to ignore them.
>
If that is his reason for ignoring the rights of his victims,
then he is even more unethical than I first thought.
[According to Aristotle, a voluntary action or trait has two
distinctive features. First, there is a control condition: the
action or trait must have its origin in the agent. That is, it
must be up to the agent whether to perform that action
or possess the trait -- it cannot be compelled externally]