RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
May 7, 2012 at 3:16 pm
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2012 at 3:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 7, 2012 at 2:51 pm)Jinkies Wrote: Now here's what I actually posted in context:
Quote:Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris agree that there's no ethical justification for eating flesh. But they still eat it. You just don't hear them spouting nonsensical garbage and idiotic arguments about why it's okay. If you don't accept terrible arguments from a theist, why the hell are you throwing terrible arguments at veg*ans?
Whoa, that appears to be a bit different. Instead of being icon-driven propaganda, it now looks like I'm saying not to use terrible arguments!
That's one example of why I called what you did disingenuous. Because it was. It's bullshit when the theists do it to "prove" Darwin was a Christian. It's also bullshit when you do it to misrepresent my position.
Bolding is mine...I'm sure I've quote mined you somehow.
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Moving forward
Nope, no moral obligation, no argument and no explanation (because none is required, and it isn't an issue of morality, and we aren't pushing a "morality of meat" discussion are we). I eat, some of the things I eat once drew breath. That's as far as it goes. It isn't that I don't care, because what would there be to care (or not care) about?
(that handie can be arranged, but I'm not cheap.)
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