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Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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Fri, 26 May 2000 13:11:36 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Eric Joslin writes:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
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> > > To put my stance in perspective, and I
> > > expect the vast majority of you to disagree, I don't feel that there is any
> > > moral difference between testing drugs on Negros or homosexuals (or any • other
> > > group) and testing drugs on monkeys or cats.
> Further, he must by definition be either a full vegetarian or a full
> cannibal, at least in principle.
I don't think so. By my above statements: I could be a full cannibal - but I'd
also have to think that eating other animals was OK, just not as tasty. Or I
could eat anything that I wanted to - people, veggies, beef, whatever - that's
still in keeping with my expressed logic. Or I could be a full vegetarian,
eschewing all meat intake equally.
In reality, I consider myself a poor vegetarian. I haven't eaten (except for
trace amounts by mistake) the flesh, or derivatives, of an animal in six years.
And for four years before that I'd only occasionally eat any meat (e.g.
pepperoni on a pizza that was being thrown out, etc.) I eat eggs and dairy
products. But my eggs often come from neighbors with free-range backyard
flocks, and I otherwise pay the extra for free-range vegetarian eggs. My milk
is "cruelty free, organic" produce, and I eat cheese and ice cream that I have
no idea about.
The bad part comes in the form of looking aside from the origin of cheese and
ice-cream and from the fact that I wear leather shoes. I detest plastic on my
body.
Chris
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| (...) Okay, but my point was that if you equate humans (of any group) with animals (also, presumably, of any group), then you would see no difference between eating people and eating "animals." Thus any meat consumption would be equivalent to eating (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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| (...) Chris, I haven't been following this thread for the past week and I'm not caught up yet. I'm a little confused by the above paragraph. Are you vegan or lacto-ovo-vegetarian? It sounds like the latter to me, but I wanted to be sure. FYI, I've (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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