ant and dec wrote:

> Martin Willett wrote:
>
>> ant and dec wrote:
>>
>>> Martin Willett wrote:
>>>
>>>> ant and dec wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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 was wrong. It is a diatribe. Humour is often used as a
>>>>> mollifying device for mental conflict, perhaps caused by your
>>>>> recognition of your own hypocrisy.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't have a problem with hypocrisy, I make a rule not to eat
>>>> anything smarter than a pig,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> How convenient for you, and inconvenient for the pig. Why have you
>>> drawn this seemingly arbitrary line at pigs?
>
>
> I'd like you to answer this point.
>
>>>
>>> unless I really have to. Fortunately that rule
>>>
>>>> doesn't restrict my diet very much. I have a lot of respect for the
>>>> intelligence of pigs.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> But not much respect for the pig?
>>
>>
>> If we didn't eat the pigs they would never exist at all. As long as
>> most of their life is happy and content it must surely better to live
>> and die than not to.
>>
>> Of course I know there's a qualifier in that statement. I put it
>> there, so don't bother pointing it out.
>>
>> Death is unavoidable, humane slaughter is not the worst death a pig
>> could face, very few wild pigs die in hospices surrounded by their
>> loving families with large quantities of euphoria-inducing pain-killers.
>
>
> This line of thinking is very often pulled apart as being complete BS.
> by both camps. I see some have already pointed this out.

Right. There is only one long-term participant in this
or related newsgroups who subscribes to the bullshit
Illogic of the Larder: a 47-year-old Atlanta (Georgia)
area ****wit and homosexual named David Harrison who is
better known by most of the other regular participants
here as ****wit. ****wit believes that coming into
existence -per se- is a good thing for the entity that
comes into existence