ant and dec wrote:
> Martin Willett wrote:
>
>>
>> First published on http://mwillett.org/mind/eat-me.htm
>> posted by the author
>>
>
> A factually incorrect diatribe attempting to justify the consumption of
> meat.
>
> A troll.
How do you make that out? It strikes me you simply haven't got an answer
to the points I made.
I get accused of many things, writing stuff full of facts is rarely one
of them. What was incorrect?
Do veg*ns never use the hypocrisy of eating meat and not wanting to be
eaten as a claim to a higher moral stance? Do you think I *couldn't*
find evidence of such an argument being deployed if I could be arsed to
do so?
Was I wrong in my analysis that more people eat "noble" salmon and deer
than "nasty" hyaenas and tapeworms?
In what way did I justify the consumption of meat? I didn't. I simply
took apart one of the arguments sometimes used against meat eating and
showed it to be rather farcical.
I posted this here because I was looking to see if anybody could come up
with any good case against me. Of course the original piece was designed
to be humorous (do veg*ns do humour?) and was not intended to win any
debate. I run a website that tackles dozens of issues, I don't have a
single-issue agenda. I've been doing this kind of stuff for six years
now and I've never been hounded out of any newsgroup and neither has any
newsgroup ever disbanded because they've been blown away by the power of
my analysis and rapier-like wit (with the possible exception of
alt.religion.christian.amish, but I think they had a few philosophical
difficulties before I showed up). I am here to stimulate a conversation,
not a conversion. I haven't insulted you so I'd appreciate it if you
didn't insult me. If you don't want to engage with me then fine, don't
do it. But please don't do other people's thinking for them by hanging a
ready-made hate label round my neck.
I've just re-read your post. Is "A Troll" your usual signature? I
apologize if I misinterpreted the nature of your post.
--
Martin Willett
http://mwillett.org