On Apr 6, 10:44*pm, "Dutch" > wrote:
> "Rupert" > wrote
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> > What do you suppose would motivate the search if they didn't believe
> > (falsely) that it was the best way of trying to reduce harm to
> > animals? How would you make sense of what they are doing if they
> > didn't have that belief?
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> They believe that by being vegan they achieve a certain moral standing and
> by consuming any animal parts at all they are tainted and that moral
> standing is threatened. They perceive it as the idea being "repulsive" or
> something to that effect.

How would they be able to sustain the belief that they thereby obtain
a certain moral standing if they didn't believe that that was the best
way to reduce harm to animals?