"Derek" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:59:27 -0800, "Dutch" > wrote:
>>"Derek" > wrote in message
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>>> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:29:09 -0800, "Dutch" > wrote:
>>>>"Derek" > wrote in message
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>>>>> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:32:28 -0800, "Dutch" > wrote:
>>>>>>"Derek" > wrote
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>>>>>>> I'm responsible for what I ask for: the death of crops to
>>>>>>> eat. You are responsible for what you ask for: the death
>>>>>>> of animals to eat.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>If I ask for the death of animals *and* I am aware that
>>>>>>abuse of animals takes place, I become complicit in the
>>>>>>deaths *and* the abuse, even though I did not ask for
>>>>>>the abuse.
>>>>>
>>>>> That doesn't make sense. You start off by asking
>>>>> for the death and abuse of animals, and finish by
>>>>> stating you didn't ask for any abuse.
>>>>
>>>>Where are you seeing that? I *never* asked for the abuse, and didn't say
>>>>I
>>>>did.
>>>
>>> When you wrote, "If I ask for the death of animals *and*
>>> I am aware that abuse of animals takes place..." you are
>>> in deed asking for abuse to take place.
>>
>>I don't get your reasoning. I am NOT asking for abuse,
>
> Again, when writing, "If I ask for the death of animals *and*
> I am aware that abuse of animals takes place..." you are
> in deed asking for abuse to take place.

By that reasoning if you ask for vegetables when you are aware that cds take
place that means you are asking for cds to take place. By your reasoning
vegans are even MORE culpable than I believe they are.