Martin Willett wrote:
> 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?

You probably could but "I don't eat meat in case it causes me to be
eaten
by an alien" is a misrepresentation of the argument.
>
> 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
>
>
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