RE: Hunting

From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 18:52:43 MDT

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    Greg wrote:
     It only makes sense to judge it from the
    > human perspective. From the animal perspective, we are evil
    > regardless of our motives, as you say.

    ### 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.

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    If they had our intelligence,
    > maybe they would not totally blame us for eating to survive, any more
    > than I would blame a hungry mountain lion for attacking me (but
    > still, I would fight it if I could).

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

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

    Rafal



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