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Default skirt-boy: burden of proof not met

Rupert wrote:
> On Jul 30, 2:38 am, Rudy Canoza > wrote:
>> Rupert wrote:
>>> On Jul 30, 1:52 am, Rudy Canoza > wrote:
>>>> Rupert wrote:
>>>>> On Jul 29, 1:56 am, Rudy Canoza > wrote:
>>>>>> Rupert wrote:
>>>>>>> On Jul 29, 1:10 am, Rudy Canoza > wrote:
>>>>>>>> Rupert wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Jul 29, 12:58 am, Rudy Canoza > wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Rupert wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On Jul 28, 3:22 pm, Rudy Canoza > wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> Guppy the Corpse Pumper wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Jul 27, 2:08 pm, Rudy Canoza > wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Jul 27, 12:52 pm, 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?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It is not self-evident. In fact, it is more likely self-evidently
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> false.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> More proof that
>>>>>>>>>>>> The proposition of equal moral considerability of
>>>>>>>>>>>> animals (with humans) is self evidently false.
>>>>>>>>>>> Well, surely if I can be criticized for making an assertion without
>>>>>>>>>>> meeting by burden of proof, then this assertion of yours here can
>>>>>>>>>>> equally be criticized on that basis.
>>>>>>>>>> I'm just following your lead.
>>>>>>>>> I see. Well, that blabber of mine to which I directed you
>>>>>>>> zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
>>>>>>> I mean, you did ask me to defend my position in your opening post. So
>>>>>>> I direct you towards a considered attempt at a defence
>>>>>> Post the content here, skirt-boy. I'm not interested
>>>>>> in signing up for your fruit-display Yahoo group.- Hide quoted text -
>>>>> I don't think you have to sign up to the Yahoo group to download the
>>>>> file. Dutch did it and I don't think he signed up. It's too long to
>>>>> put in a newsgroup message. Maybe I'll put it on my webpage.
>>>>> So, anyway, by your own admission you dismissed my talk as "babble"
>>>>> without having read a single word of it.
>>>> I know that you assume that which you are required to
>>>> prove.
>>> Yes, yes. You know a lot, Rudy.

>> Right - I do. I do know that you still assume in your
>> little sermon that animals are entitled to equal moral
>> consideration, when that premise is the very thing you
>> are tasked to show. You haven't shown it, and we all
>> know you can't.

>
> You asked me for an argument. I gave you one.


You didn't. You merely repeated the assertion you
can't seem to support.