XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian, rec.pets.dogs.health, misc.rural   
   From: elfwhere@tpg.com.au   
      
   Rudy Canoza wrote:   
   > Brock Ulfsen wrote:   
   >   
   >> Rudy Canoza wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> It's not disappointment.  You're anthropomorphizing - projecting what   
   >>> would be *your* sentiment onto the dog.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> It's actually a moral failure to do that, because it cheapens the   
   >>> real meaning of human emotions.   
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   >>   
   >>   
   >> Why, we're just another animal, quantitatviely but not qualitatively   
   >> different to dogs.   
   >   
   >   
   > No, we are vastly qualitatively different from other animals.  You are   
   > deeply and reprehensibly morally confused.   
      
   Prove it. Objectively. Or is this a religious thing?   
      
   Only the Abrahamic Faiths suffer from the view that we are in some   
   fundamental sense different to the rest of the biomass.   
      
   ...Brock.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)