RE: Hunting

From: Greg Jordan (jordan@chuma.cas.usf.edu)
Date: Wed May 07 2003 - 07:28:46 MDT

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    On Tue, 6 May 2003, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:

    > ### But animals have no perspective, they are only animals. If they were
    > sentient, they'd be persons, and obviously we couldn't hunt them for fun.

    So it is only ignorance that prevents you from opposing
    hunting. Interesting.

    I gather you are either a creationist or some sort of secular rationalizer
    for anthropocentrism - that sentience, intelligence, awareness, feelings,
    etc., all arose magically and all-at-once, outside of any evolutionary
    pathway, in _homo sapiens_ alone.

    > ### But they don't have our intelligence, so why bother imagining
    > counterfactual calculations of value?

    I can bother doing anything I want. My counterfactual helped to outline
    the ethical consistency of the position, from the human and animal
    viewpoints. You really are just missing the explanation all round.

    > Painlessly kill deer, whether you are hungry, angry, or bored. There is
    > nothing wrong with it.

    Is this like a religious commandment? I know I won't be paying any
    attention to it.

    gej
    resourcesoftheworld.org
    jordan@chuma.cas.usf.edu



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