XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, talk.politics.animals, alt   
   food.vegan.science   
   From: dereknash@groupmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:47:27 -0700, George Plimpton    
   wrote:   
      
   >Goo - Fuckwit David Harrison, THE Goober - mangled some more quotes into   
   >pseudo-quotes and lied:   
   >   
   >> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:02:15 -0700, "Dutch" wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>>>> , for example, "giving them life does NOT   
   >>>>> mitigate the wrongness of their deaths" is an accurate expression of an   
   >>>>> ARA   
   >>>>> mentality. He said it in order to explain to you why the LoL is a useless   
   >>>>> strategy, besides being dishonest sophistry. He doesn't think that   
   killing   
   >>>>> farm animals is wrong, YOU IDIOT.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> He let us know that he does,   
   >   
   >No, Goo. What I wrote said exactly the opposite, Goo. Everyone knows   
   >it, Goo, including you.   
   >   
   >   
   >>>   
   >>> No, he didn't, the wrongness in "the wrongness of their deaths" exists   
   >>> within the mind of the "ethical vegetarian", not in his mind.   
   >>   
   >> "Life "justifying" death is the   
   >> stupidest goddamned thing you ever wrote." - Prof. Geo. Plimpton   
   >   
   >True.   
   >   
   >   
   >>   
   >> ""aras" confront him with a truth that . . . consumption   
   >> of "meat...gravy" harms animals interests."   
   >   
   >That's a mangled pseudo-quote, of course. Here's the full statement:   
   >   
   > "aras" confront him with a truth that Fuckwit cannot address:   
   > that Fuckwit's consumption of "meat...gravy" harms animals interests.   
   >   
   >   
   >You had to mangle it in order to try to lie, Fuckwit, but as usual you   
   >were caught and defeated.   
   >   
   >   
   >>   
   >>> He is saying   
   >>> that giving them life does not mitigate THAT "wrongness" within *their*   
   >>> believe system.   
   >>   
   >> "NO livestock benefit from being farmed."   
   >   
   >True.   
   >   
   >> "It is morally wrong, in an absolute sense - unjust, in other   
   >> words - if humans kill animals they don't need to kill, i.e. not   
   >> in self defense. There's your answer. "   
   >   
   >Another mangled, out-of-context pseudo-quote from Fuckwit, THE Goober.   
   >In fact, that statement was given as an answer, with some additional   
   >words that you unethically removed, to a fuckwitted question you posed,   
   >Fuckwit (is there any other kind from you?):   
   >   
   > Fuckwit David Harrison, THE Goober:   
   > I've asked you "ARAs" more than once for whom or what it would be   
   > better not to raise animals to eat.   
   >   
   > Wilson Woods:   
   > They answer, "It is morally wrong, in an absolute sense   
   > - unjust, in other words - if humans kill animals they   
   > don't need to kill, i.e. not in self defense." There's   
   > your answer.   
   >   
   >So, the mangled pseudo-quote was not anyone speaking on his own behalf,   
   >Goober, it was someone telling you what "aras" say. But being an   
   >unethical fighting-dog breeder, you had to mangle it unethically. You   
   >lose again, Fuckwit: You always lose.   
   >   
   >>   
   >> 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."   
   >   
   >Actual statement:   
   >   
   > If you are an "animal rights activist", and you believe   
   > that the nutritionally unnecessary choice deliberately   
   > to kill an animal ALWAYS causes a moral harm greater in   
   > magnitude than either the potential moral "loss" that   
   > results from not raising the animal in the first place,   
   > or the moral "benefit" realized by the animal in   
   > existing at all, then 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.   
   >   
   >   
   >You unethically edited again, fighting-dog-breeder Fuckwit.   
   >   
   >   
   >>   
   >>> He and I do not see any wrongness in their deaths. Everyone   
   >>> except you knows that.   
   >>   
   >> "the "getting to experience life" deserves NO moral   
   >> consideration, and is given none; the deliberate killing   
   >> of animals for use by humans DOES deserve moral   
   >> consideration, and gets it."   
   >>   
   >> "we need to consider group 1, those animals who WILL   
   >> exist under present rules" - "Dutch"   
   >   
   >Not a quote.   
   >   
   >   
   >> "Because future animals who will inevitably be born are   
   >> as important as ones which exist now. " - Dutch   
   >   
   >Not a quote.   
   >   
   >   
   >>   
   >> "It's wrong to exploit animals by breeding, confining and   
   >> killing them." - "Dutch"   
   >   
   >Not a quote.   
   >   
   >   
   >> "Every consumer choice promotes animals to experience   
   >> life." - Dutch   
   >   
   >Out-of-context quote. Full text:   
   >   
   > You cannot explain why anyone who consumes animal products should   
   > think that it's anything special that they promote livestock to   
   > "experience life". Every consumer choice promotes animals to   
   > experience life. Consuming grain promotes life, and death.   
   > Abstaining from meat promotes animal life other than livestock.   
   > When you single out livestock for moral consideration you commit   
   > the exact same fallacy that vegans do, you just do it in reverse.   
   >   
   >   
   >> "Life does not justify death" - "Dutch"   
   >   
   >Out-of-context quote. Full text:   
   >   
   > Life does not justify death, more to the point, life does not   
   > justify killing. If it did, parents who kill their children could   
   > introduce it in court as a factor in their favour. The fact that   
   > we raise livestock with the *intention* of killing them does not   
   > change it, we still cannot ethically use *life itself* as a   
   > justification for killing.   
   >   
   >   
   >>   
   >> "abstaining from meat saves future animals from life" - "Dutch"   
   >   
   >Out of context mangling of an answer to Fuckwit's comment.   
   >   
   > Fuckwit David Harrison, THE Goober:   
   > If you didn't want people to think veganism does save farm   
   > animals etc,   
   >   
   >   
   > Dutch:   
   > If you wish to use that vernacular, and you do, then veganism   
   > *does* savefarm animals [from the vegan viewpoint from a life of   
   > misery]. If you are going to argue that continuing meat   
   > consumption allows future animals to be born [from your viewpoint   
   > to experience a potentially decent life] then vegans can argue   
   > that abstaining from meat saves future animals from life   
   >   
   >   
   >>   
   >>> You are REALLY stupid.   
   >>   
   >> "you should become a vegan. I've been saying that to you   
   >> for years." - "Dutch"   
   >   
   >Out-of-context mangled pseudo-quote. Full text:   
   >   
   > If you think it's abusive to kill an animal for food then you're   
   > an ARA and you should become a vegan. I've been saying that to you   
   > for years.   
   >   
   >   
   > From now on, Fuckwit, all of your tedious pseudo-quotes are just   
   >dismissed. There will be no more corrections. Your allegations of   
   >"quotes" are just summarily dismissed, because you're a known unethical   
   >editor and liar.   
      
   In February 2005 I made a new post titled, "Jonathan's quotes - posted   
   for Harrison's future reference"   
      
   "animals have a "right" to be born. It's true"   
    Jonathan Ball 28 Dec 2000 http://tinyurl.com/5o7gy   
      
    "I'm a closet "ARA"."   
    Jonathan Ball 28 Jul 2001 http://tinyurl.com/3qgv9   
      
      
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