On 4/7/2012 1:33 AM, Rupert wrote:
> On Apr 6, 10:44 pm, > wrote:
>> > 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?

Your question is absurd. Their belief about the effect and sufficiency
of "veganism" is false, and therefore so is their belief about their
moral standing.