"Jonathan Ball" > wrote in message link.net...
> Derek wrote:
> > "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.
>
> He isn't ignoring any rights of victims.
>
But you just wrote that he does; "He ignores them because
you keep paying him to ignore them." Make up your mind.
> He behaves as he does because you keep giving him money.
>
He behaves the way he does according to his own principles,
not mine, so he alone is responsible for his autonomous actions
rather than me.