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Thread: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
Post: RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
| (April 28, 2012 at 6:12 pm)Zen Badger Wrote: If it is not, prove it
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April 29, 2012 at 8:24 am |
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Thread: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
Post: RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
| Quote:PS I opted out as it's like trying to communicate with an orangutang.
LOL. I the argument fails......
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April 29, 2012 at 4:53 am |
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Thread: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
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Quote:I have nothing further to say on this matter to you..
Well, please return your head to the sand.
Quote:And even that is only a human perception as no predator in nature gives a fuck if their ... |
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April 28, 2012 at 2:32 pm |
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Thread: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
Post: RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
| So much bluster!
Quote:My argument is that reducing intensive livestock production (regardless of whether we eat the meat or not, this is completely irrelevant to the issue of fertility and it's sour... |
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April 25, 2012 at 3:08 pm |
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Thread: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
Post: RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
| Quote:We have always eaten meat, along with everything else that we could fit in our mouths.
Thanks for the insight. Perhaps you covered some other aspects of our evolutionary past in your science cl... |
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April 25, 2012 at 1:50 pm |
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Thread: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
Post: RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
| Quote:Scabby Joe Wrote: As I've explained, if an animals has the capacity to feel pain and suffer then it has interests. Without that capacity, it has no interests. This seems an entirely sensible ap... |
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April 24, 2012 at 4:06 pm |
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Thread: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
Post: RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
| Quote: But I am not chicken, i am human, so my enjoyment of eating chickens, a result of my biological and sociological evolutionary history, is special to me..
Animal-eating is a social practice whi... |
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April 24, 2012 at 3:31 pm |
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Thread: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
Post: RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
| Quote:On what basis would one restrict that consideration to any group of creatures over another? You go with sentience, an effect of biology.
As I've explained, if an animals has the capacity to fe... |
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April 24, 2012 at 11:37 am |
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Thread: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
Post: RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
| Quote:Your morality is not my own, your motivations are not my own, nor can either of us confidently claim that if our personal sense of morality were nothing more than self interest then other's mora... |
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April 24, 2012 at 11:20 am |
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Thread: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
Post: RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
| (April 24, 2012 at 8:37 am)Rhythm Wrote: Your own arguments escape self interest precisely how? From where I stand that's all I see.I used to love eating meat. On moral grounds I chose to abstain. ... |
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April 24, 2012 at 8:46 am |
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Thread: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
Post: RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
| Quote:Well, I haven't contributed to this thread, but I can say with my hand on my heart, that the basis for restricting that consideration to humans is because, at heart, I am fundamentally a complet... |
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April 24, 2012 at 8:35 am |
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Thread: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
Post: RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
| Quote:I have no idea where you drew that conclusion from. Humans are animals, so why shouldn't we eat meat?
As just another animal, we are not special as theists believe; not created in the image of ... |
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April 24, 2012 at 8:22 am |
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Thread: Objective morality
Post: RE: Objective morality
| What does it matter if there is objective morality or not when so many have different views?
You could argue that morality is innate and instinctive. That accounts for a lot of the similar moral view... |
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April 23, 2012 at 5:39 pm |
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Thread: What's your favorite drink?
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April 23, 2012 at 4:07 pm |
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Thread: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
Post: RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
| Quote:You are always free to speak with an extra large steak burger stuffed in your mouth.
Now I'm getting an uneasy feeling. You seem fixated with stuffing things in my mouth, lol. |
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April 23, 2012 at 4:06 pm |
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Thread: Do you agree with Albert Einstein?
Post: RE: Do you agree with Albert Einstein?
| (April 23, 2012 at 3:32 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I wasn't aware that human beings knees were capable of bending backwards far enough to the point of kicking one's own ass so thoroughly. So necessarily. :wor... |
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April 23, 2012 at 4:03 pm |
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Thread: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
Post: RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
| (April 23, 2012 at 2:36 pm)Chuck Wrote: But if I can shut you permanently up by stuffing the monster burger down your vegan throat, then I will need to shove it down your vegan throat.
What happened... |
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April 23, 2012 at 2:44 pm |
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Thread: Do you agree with Albert Einstein?
Post: RE: Do you agree with Albert Einstein?
| Quote:It "seems to me" that Einstein was most likely not an authority on human biology, but in this case, he was at least half right.
Hey, this time I am appealing to [false] authority. If it's go... |
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April 23, 2012 at 2:34 pm |
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Thread: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
Post: RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
| Quote:If you aren't...I'd be glad to run a clinic.....
No thanks I am watching Man V Food to educate myself about American dining.
Do you really need all that meat? That's not you in the red t Shirt... |
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April 23, 2012 at 2:31 pm |
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Thread: Do you agree with Albert Einstein?
Post: Do you agree with Albert Einstein?
| Einstein wrote, "I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience." and also, "So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always ... |
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April 23, 2012 at 2:15 pm |
