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dh@.

On 24 Feb 2006 12:59:52 -0800, wrote:

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>dh@. wrote:
>> On 24 Feb 2006 00:36:16 -0800, wrote:
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>> >dh@. wrote:
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>> >> Humans grow too slowly. They require too much care for too long
>> >> while young. They take too long to reach the age where they can
>> >> reproduce. Those are other reasons. There are more, but that is more
>> >> than enough right there for me to promote raising animals for food over
>> >> raising humans.
>> >>
>> >
>> >But if we could provide the humans with good lives, then it would be
>> >fine?
>>
>> It depends on the details like I told you to begin with. We ARE in that
>> situation right now.
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>No, we're not.
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>I was speaking of humans being raised for food, and
>killed by other human beings before their natural death.

How long would they live? How would they be raised? What would they
be fed? Who would care for them as infants? How long would the breeders
live? What would they be taught?

>> You're alive, but you will eventually be killed by
>> something, and your body will be consumed. Is that "fine" or not?
>> If not, then what solution(s) can you think of?
>>
>> >If you really think that, I don't know whether I have anything more to
>> >say. Moral argument has to stop somewhere.
>>
>> Can you really ask yourself if you would say no to raising humans
>> for food only out of consideration for "them"?
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>I would object to it because it would involve violations of the right
>to life.

Totally lame on your part.

>> I don't believe you
>> can, because if you were able to you would have to at least give
>> SOME!!! consideration to what their lives would be like!!! The same
>> is true in regards to the animals that we DO raise of food. Moral
>> argument has to stop somewhere? What makes you think it has
>> even begun? Maybe you feel that any sort of pre-determined life
>> span somehow makes life not worth living, or something like that?
>> If so then please say so and support the feeling.