ant and dec wrote:
> Martin Willett wrote:
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>>
>> I like the cut of your jib.
>>
>> (In case you're not familiar with that phrase I'm sure the origin is
>> nautical and has nothing to do with butchery.)
>>
>> I think I have just worked out a new moral principle that is better
>> than the not eating anything smarter than a pig principle but also has
>> the same virtue of not making me change my ways and not painting me as
>> a hypocrite in the front of ravenous aliens: I'll not kill or
>> contribute to the death of any animal for food purposes /if that
>> animal is clearly capable of making a moral choice/, unless they have
>> given me explicit permission.
>>
>
> What prompted this rethink?
>
> Your lack of response in other threads in interesting. - Perhaps you're
> more suited to 'debating' with a sycophant.

You do have a right to remain silent, but that does leave people to
draw their own conclusions.


>
> What difference does the ability to make a moral choice have on your
> want to kill and eat a species?
>
> Do you *know* that a pig can not differentiate between right and wrong?
>