Susan Kennedy wrote:

> "Jonathan Ball" > wrote in message
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>>Susan Kennedy wrote:
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>>>"frlpwr" > wrote in message
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>>>>jitney wrote:
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>>>>>If, in your interesting ethical world, animals have rights, just how
>>>>>do you propose to protect the animals from each other?
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>>>>In my "interesting ethical world", it would not be my place to interfere
>>>>in the lives of other animals. Being a big Buttinsky, this would be and
>>>>is now a difficult lesson for me.
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>>>
>>>Then your whole premise is faulty, for by trying to convince other
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> animals
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>>>of your own species (you were the one who said humans were just another
>>>species of animal) that they should not eat animals of other species, or
>>>raise them as food, use them as test animals, or keep them as pets, you
>>>*are* interfering with other animals. Seems to me this is a direct
>>>contradiction of what you claim to want.
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>>Not only that, but her basis for saying it is ENTIRELY
>>speciesist.
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> *LOL* I do believe that's the first time I've ever seen that word used
> outside of a fantasy book!

I only wish it were true that political correctness
were a fantasy, but it's a very real phenomenon,
especially in the universities.