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Default skirt-boy: burden of proof not met

Rupert wrote:
> On Jul 28, 8:31 am, Dutch > wrote:
>> shrubkiller wrote:
>>> On Jul 27, 1:42 am, Rudy Canoza > wrote:
>>>> rupie, you lisping fruit: you assert that (non-human)
>>>> animals are due equal moral consideration (compared
>>>> with humans). You haven't established that. Get busy,
>>>> you lisping utilitarian fruit.
>>> Why would anyone have to prove something which is SELF EVIDENT?
>>> ****! ................are you ever stupid.

>> Why would anyone think that is self-evident when it is so self-evidently
>> NOT? Nobody gives animals "equal consideration",

>
> I do.


No you don't, you just think it sounds like the right thing for you to
say. The moment anyone tried to pin you down on it the word "equal"
would immediately lose it's usual meaning and the goalposts on wheels
would appear.