Re: FAQ: SOCIETY AND POLITICS

Joe Jenkins (joe_jenkins@yahoo.com)
Mon, 27 Jul 1998 09:13:50 -0700 (PDT)

---Nick Bostrom <bostrom@ndirect.co.uk> wrote:

> husbandry. If we could design cattle without brains or with just the
> brain stem, we would have a way of producing meat without maltreating
> animals (the brainless bodies wouldn't count as animals). The human
> yuck-feeling (probably temporary) would have to be weighed against
> the permanent reduction in animal suffering.

I would prefer this part be deleted from the FAQ. I dont think it buys anything, even with vegetarians or animal rights folk.

> into radioactive substances or wasted as radiation escaping into
> intergalactic space. Whoever was in charge of this project could
> probably have done with a little bit more accountability!
>

What project?

Joe Jenkins
joe_jenkins@yahoo.com



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