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Jonathan Ball
 
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John Jones wrote:

> How can you prevent a farm animal? By eliminating farms or eliminating an
> animal?


****wit - , nee David Harrison - is
ensnaring you in his quagmire. He uses that kind of
deliberately murky, weird language as a debate tactic.

Here's what ****wit is talking about, in plain English,
as opposed to his gobbledygook: if "vegans" succeed in
getting everyone to stop eating meat and other animal
products, there will be no demand for farm animals of
any kind, and farmers will stop breeding. Today,
however, because the overwhelming majority of people
*do* consume animal products, the expectation is that
billions upon billions of farm animals will be bred,
raised and slaughtered.

****wit considers the mere, empty fact of farm animals'
"getting to experience life" to be a very good thing,
morally. As a necessary consequence, he therefore
believes that "vegans", by wanting to "prevent" these
farm animals from "getting to experience life", are
doing something morally bad.

"vegans" do, in fact, want to "prevent" farm animals,
by getting people to stop demanding products made from
them. To "vegans", the fact that humans deliberately
kill the animals is a very bad thing, morally. I
happen to disagree with them - I consume animal
products with a clear conscience - but their position
at least makes some sense, given their values.

****wit's position makes no sense at all.