>Animal RIGHTS people are coming from the Enlightenment
>tradition of personal RIGHTS. PERIOD
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>At 07:29 AM 2/29/00 -0500, VeggieBiggs wrote:
>>I think the animal rights community as a whole is evenly divided
>>over this issue, partly because many are coming from animal welfare, (dog and
>>cat lovers), rather than from the environmental movement as I did. I would
>>sacrifice one whale, one gorilla, one dog and even one human being to save an
>>ecosystem.
Well (WELL), descriptively speaking many animal RIGHTS people don't in fact
actually KNOW where they are coming from, a FACT noted by Gary FRANCIONE in
his book, RAIN WITHOUT THUNDER. PERIOD Even Peter SINGER promiscuously
uses the term animal RIGHTS interchangeably with animal WELFARE in his well
known animal RIGHTS (?) (QUESTION MARK) tract, ANIMAL LIBERATION.
FRANCIONE complains that this is why the animal RIGHTS movement is getting
NOWHERE today, because at its root, the movement's philosophy (!)
(EXCLAMATION POINT) is ideologically INCOHERENT. period.
WAIT. . . OOPS, let me turn the VOLUME down THERE . . . okay.
I doubt that it is accurate to speak of animal rights people as
constituting the animal rights "community" in the sense you intend. There
are very few animal rights people in that sense, and little or no
community: perhaps Regan and Francione. That's about it. :-) I think
Jamey's meaning was pretty clear.
Perhaps if you were to elaborate a bit further I'd understand your meaning
more fully.
Jim "killing is best"? QUESTION MARK (!) EXCLAMATION POINT Tantillo
;-)
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