I quess it depends on whether you think the universe is an animal or not and
whether animal rights and environmental ethics are different or alike
subjects. To me they are not seperate subjects and for anyone who lives in
the rural areas adjacent to wilderness, there is no seperation between the
two subejcts (you cannot seperate habitat, species and species habitat into
neat little subdivisions). Environmental ethics includes a consideration of
whether animals should be assigned rights. A list that specifically
addresses animal rights does not address plant rights, nor human rights, but
an environmental ethics list does address all of the former.
That is a real damper of a comment there ...by the list owner regarding
anything metaphysical. One would be better off discussing Plato and Plotinus
regarding the universe as a 'body without organs'; I can just see coming...
I for one think that the universe is a body without organs. Since every atom
has the potential to be in an 'animal' or a 'tree' then really only
'conceivable' time limits the imagination and prevents the universe from
actually being an organism.
John Foster
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