Tue, Feb-17-04, 18:31
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Experimenter
Posts: 25,934
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Plan: DDF
Stats: 202/185.4/179
BF:
Progress: 72%
Location: San Diego, CA
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So, if you were in a cage with a starving tiger, would you flip a coin to see if he'd get to eat you or you'd try to kill him, presuming that your lives are equally important? I bet the tiger didn't read any philosophers and wouldn't feel a moment of conflict over his priorities.
Personally, I think its natural for every animal to feel their life is more important and their species is more important, then others. I'm sure that a cat feels mice are food whereas other cats are not.
Unfortunately I think that some of the ethical vegetarians are so extreme they put their pets on vegetarian diets too. And that, I think, is cruelty to animals.
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