RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
April 17, 2012 at 8:10 pm
(This post was last modified: April 17, 2012 at 8:16 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I'd never do such a thing, you vegetarian types are my best customers..lol.
(Again, you're defining "meaningful" as something which is synonymous with "like us" in the biological sense. There's no problem with this -to me-, but it would fall under the remit of speciesism. I'm not judging you for it amigo, it's kind of expected. The trouble is that any justification you draw from this can be criticized by demonstrating parallels between those species you have included in the group of "has rights" and those you have excluded. It's not as difficult as you might imagine. We aren't as "aware" of ourselves as we like to think, and plants aren't as "oblivious" of themselves as is so often supposed. We leverage different biological mechanisms to achieve the same ends, and they often have similar outward effects.)
(Again, you're defining "meaningful" as something which is synonymous with "like us" in the biological sense. There's no problem with this -to me-, but it would fall under the remit of speciesism. I'm not judging you for it amigo, it's kind of expected. The trouble is that any justification you draw from this can be criticized by demonstrating parallels between those species you have included in the group of "has rights" and those you have excluded. It's not as difficult as you might imagine. We aren't as "aware" of ourselves as we like to think, and plants aren't as "oblivious" of themselves as is so often supposed. We leverage different biological mechanisms to achieve the same ends, and they often have similar outward effects.)
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