Re: Existence - not "better" than never existing

Derek <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:38:22 +0100
Newsgroups alt.philosophy,alt.atheism,alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 18:15:38 -0700, George Plimpton <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 2/3/2011 9:55 AM, David "Fuckwit" Harrison, stupid knuckle-dragging 
>illiterate cracker *convicted* for engaging in dog-fighting, lied:
>
>>
>>      Elimination would NOT provide decent lives,
>
>*You* don't care about providing "decent lives".
>
>
>> There's a HUGE difference between
>> wanting billions of future livestock to enjoy lives of positive
>> value, and wanting there to be no livestock animals to enjoy
>> anything.
>
>Not to you, there isn't:
>
>      I would eat animals even if I thought that it was cruel
>      to them, and even if they gained nothing from the deal.
>
>      David Harrison 23 Sep 1999  http://tinyurl.com/yh5yc6w
>
>
>      I am not an extremist about it, and if I thought that all
>      of the animals I eat had terrible lives, I would still eat
>      meat. That is not because I don't care about them at all,
>      but I would just ignore their suffering.
>
>      David Harrison Nov 29 1999  http://tinyurl.com/k66pb
>
>
>      I don't try to eat ethically, because I don't really care
>      enough to make the effort.
>
>      David Harrison 31 July 2003  http://tinyurl.com/2v5ayqy
>
>
>You "don't really care enough to make the effort" - the *fraudulence* of your 
>blabber about "consideration" for "decent lives of possitive [sic] value" could 
>not be more blatant.
>
>You're a fraud - a blatant liar and a fraud.

I'm a vegan, and my favourite animal is a high horse.