Derek wrote:

> "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 ignores what you disingenuously claim, for
unprincipled reasons, to be animals' "rights". He does
so because you keep ignoring the consequences you claim
not to like. Your claims are seen as empty at best,
but actually hypocritical.

>
>
>>He behaves as he does because you keep giving him money.
>>
>
> He behaves the way he does according to his own principles,

The principle of self interest. You keep rewarding him.