XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, alt.animals.rights.promotion,   
   soc.culture.usa   
      
   On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 23:02:40 +0000, Derek  wrote:   
      
   >There's at least one more vegetarian I can think of who does a pretty   
   >good job in keeping that character group alive. He's Australian, you   
   >know. From a country that probably has one of the richest reserves of   
   >humour in the world.   
      
       There's an Australian clown here who claims to have a PhD in math yet can't   
   comprehend a simple aspect of life we discussed in class in grade school. In   
   the   
   grade school I went to, he probably would have been in special ed:   
      
   "I don't believe the distinction between "lives of positive value" and   
   "lives of negative value" means anything." - Rupert   
      
   unless he was lying when he wrote that. An indication that he was is that he   
   claimed to have been able to comprehend the distinction previous to his claim   
   that he can not:   
      
   "I said to David Harrison that there exist some farmed animals such   
   that it would be a better outcome for them to live the life they do   
   rather than for them not to live at all and for no animals to live   
   in their place." - Rupert   
      
   Do you think it's likely that he could comprehend at one point, and then later   
   he unlearned? If so, how do you think he unlearned? If not, why do you think he   
   started lying about it?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)