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Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 26 May 2000 14:40:28 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> > 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.
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> > > 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.
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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 human flesh.
Right. And that is, in fact, what I believe. But I assumed by "full cannibal"
you meant that I would eat human but no other meat. That idea can't be
logically derived from what I wrote.
Were I to resort to eating any animals (legal consequences aside) humans would
be equally appealing. (Except that I might have some illogical societal
conditioning against it even though I know that logically they are morally
equivalent activities.)
Chris
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| (...) Just to pursue this to a morbid conclusion, you would therefore have no compunctions against sexual relations with any animal you found suitably attractive, and you would likewise be as willing to donate an organ to any animal (antigen issues (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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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)
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