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Leif Erikson
 
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Default Life per se does not have a positive value

dh@. wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 22:48:14 GMT, Leif Erikson > wrote:
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>>dh@. wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:06:26 GMT, Leif Erikson > wrote:
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>>>>dh@. wrote:
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>>>>>On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 13:32:29 -0800, "Dutch" > wrote:
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>>>>>><dh@.> wrote in message ...
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>>>>>>>On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 20:23:06 -0800, "Dutch" > wrote:
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>>>>>>>>It is right to feel regret or anger if an animal is mistreated, and it is
>>>>>>>>right to feel glad if an animal is well-treated.
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>>>>>>> But not for the animal, only for YOU? Is that right?
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>>>>>>No, for the animal, and by association morally for the producer and the
>>>>>>consumer.
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>>>>> So I can feel glad for you, and for me, that the animal got to experience
>>>>>a decent life, as long as I don't feel any pride for anyone for causing it to
>>>>>happen?
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>>>>You can feel good about a "decent" life as opposed to a
>>>>painful life. You may not legitimately feel good about
>>>>the animal living versus never living, which is what's
>>>>always lurking behind your nonsense about "decent
>>>>life".
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>>> That's all there is. An animal that would be born as a grass raised
>>>steer isn't going to be born as a different kind of animal if it's not born
>>>as a grass raised steer, for example.

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>>There is no moral good *to the animal* that results
>>from it being born at all.

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> You can't comprehend how life could have positive value to
> an animal


That is a nonsensical response to what I wrote. I
said, there is no moral good *to the animal* that
results from it being born. As you always have, you
keep trying to confuse, deliberately, two entirely
separate considerations.