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   On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:48:53 -0800 (PST), Tartarus  wrote:   
      
   >On Dec 5, 10:40 am, Goo wrote:   
   >   
   >> The Silent Scream of the Asparagus   
   >> Get ready for 'plant rights.'   
   >> by Wesley J. Smith   
   >>   
   >> You just knew it was coming: At the request of the Swiss government, an   
   >> ethics panel has weighed in on the "dignity" of plants and opined that   
   >> the arbitrary killing of flora is morally wrong. This is no hoax. The   
   >> concept of what could be called "plant rights" is being seriously debated.   
   >>   
   >> A few years ago the Swiss added to their national constitution a   
   >> provision requiring "account to be taken of the dignity of creation when   
   >> handling animals, plants and other organisms." No one knew exactly what   
   >> it meant, so they asked the Swiss Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human   
   >> Biotechnology to figure it out. The resulting report, "The Dignity of   
   >> Living Beings with Regard to Plants," is enough to short circuit the brain.   
   >>   
   >> A "clear majority" of the panel adopted what it called a "biocentric"   
   >> moral view, meaning that "living organisms should be considered morally   
   >> for their own sake because they are alive."   
   >   
   >This discrimination against inanimate objects must stop NOW!!!   
   >   
   >Biocentricity is an evil that will cause future generations regret. It   
   >is a disgusting and backwards notion.   
   >   
   >Tartarus   
      
       Misnomer advocates are moving in that direction:   
      
   "No zygotes, animals, people, or any other living thing   
   benefits from coming into existence." - Goo   
      
   "A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They’re all animals." - Newkirk   
      
   "Life is not a "benefit" to livestock or any other animals." - Goo   
      
   "you MUST believe that it makes moral sense not to raise the   
   animals as the only way to prevent the harm that results from   
   killing them." - Goo   
      
   "It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but   
   empty cages." - Regan   
      
   "it is not "better" that the animal exist, no matter   
   its quality of live" - Goo   
      
   "We have no problem with the extinction of domestic   
   animals." - Regan   
      
   "the moral harm caused by killing them is greater in magnitude   
   than ANY benefit they might derive from "decent lives" - Goo   
      
   "Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about   
   by human manipulation." - Newkirk   
      
   "Humans could change it. They could change it by ending it." - Goo   
      
   "Let us allow the dog to disappear from our brick and concrete   
   jungles--from our firesides, from the leather nooses and chains   
   by which we enslave it." - Bryant   
      
   "There is no "selfishness" involved in wanting farm animals not to   
   exist as a step towards creating a more just world." - Goo   
      
   "The cat, like the dog, must disappear... We should cut the   
   domestic cat free from our dominance by neutering, neutering, and   
   more neutering, until our pathetic version of the cat ceases to   
   exist." - Bryant   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)