Re: If life is a benefit...

"Jonathan Ball" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Miller wrote:
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> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >>On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 18:01:58 GMT, ipse dixit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >>If life is a benefit, then it's logically certain that
> >>no life [ie never existing at all] is a loss.
> >
> >
> > Why is deference to dualism logical?  And what does "life is a benefit"
mean
> > to you in the first place?
>
> You have to go back to the moron who has introduced
> this loathsome construction in the first place, a
> high-school dropout in Atlanta named David Harrison,
> better known as Fuckwit.  He believes that the mere
> fact of "getting to experience life" (his phrasing,
> hence the quotes) is a "benefit" to farm animals.  As a
> logically necessary consequence, and borne out in his
> further incoherent scribblings on the topic, he
> believes that "vegans" are trying to impose a loss on
> unconceived "future farm animals" by trying to get
> everyone to become vegetarian, thereby ensuring the
> extinction of farm animals raised for human consumption.
>
> It's a dirty, juvenile, stupid clumsy trick he's been
> trying to play on "vegans" for about four and a half
> years now.

Well, its somewhat interesting, I guess.  Seems to engender a bit of fierce
opposition.

Scott