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(...) You need to be clearer then. (...) I have answered this already. (...) You are missing the point. Scott A (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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 | | Re: Validity testing (was: Did animals have rights before we invented rights?)
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(...) You do not have to unmake that particular omelette, only share it. Knowing your stance on property rights, I am amazed you are so lax on this{1}. Or is the whole basis of your reality based on an action of "might makes right" - even *if* we (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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 | | Re: Validity testing (was: Did animals have rights before we invented rights?)
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(...) Disagree that this is an application of such. Let us postulate that I own clear title to a piece of real property for the sake of what follows, to avoid the (legitimate, in my view) questions of was might involved in acquiring title. These (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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 | | Re: Validity testing (was: Did animals have rights before we invented rights?)
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(...) Really? I'll propose the following: "Might makes right" - Application: killing animals for food - Boundary: - Within bounds: animals are not "self-aware" by Larry's definitions Ex: cows, chickens, fish - Outside bounds: animals are "aware (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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 | | Re: Validity testing (was: Did animals have rights before we invented rights?)
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(...) No, because I don't know of *any* boundary conditions where it would hold, contrasted with the many boundary conditions where "don't yell at your kids" is invalid, and the few boundary conditions where "free speech" is invalid. (to your (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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