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