"Jay Santos" > wrote in message
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> Scented Nectar wrote:
> >>Sophomore Ron, do you believe sodomizing small children
> >>with broom handles to be morally wrong? Yes or no,
> >>Sophomore Ron - dispense with your usual blowhard windy
> >>equivocation.
> >>
> >>If you do, Sophomore Ron, do you think someone who
> >>sodomizes small children with a broom handle only two
> >>or three times a week is entitled to feel virtuous in
> >>comparison with his neighbor who sodomizes small
> >>children with a broom handle on a daily basis?
> >
> >
> > Careful with this one Ron.
>
> Why does he need to be careful? It's a straightforward
> question: Does he believe it is morally wrong, or not?

You seem to enjoy comparing child abuse
to meat eating. Since you approve of meat
eating, this makes me worry that you approve
of child abuse since you find it comparable.

> Is killing animals morally wrong, or not? If it's
> wrong, then how can you set some non-zero amount of it
> as acceptable?

It's like pollution...

> You ****ing idiot. I told you twice, this isn't like
> pollution. Polluting is not morally wrong, it's just
> something that makes us all worse off than we would be
> if there were no pollution. GIVEN that it is not
> absolutely wrong to pollute, it is correct to view a
> reduction in pollution as an improvement: we ARE
> better off for having attained the reduction.

Who are you to say whether pollution is morally
wrong or not? I would compare my views on
meateating to your pollution example.

> But ethical values are different; they're not
> utilitarian. You can't legitimately call a reduction
> in the amount of child sodomization YOU perform an
> improvement, unless you stop doing it entirely.
> Exactly analogously, you cannot call a reduction in the
> killing of animals an "improvement", if you believe -
> as you claim to believe - that killing animals is
> absolutely wrong.

First of all, I never have and never will abuse a child.
I hope the same goes for you. As far as cds caused
by the food industry, it's kinda like pollution...



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> You very plainly are incapable of intelligent ethical
> thinking.