Steven Bissell wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr LS McLeod <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Monday, July 12, 1999 8:50 AM
> Subject: Re: animal morality.
>
> McLeod responds: "But parents don't hang the heads of their children on the
> wall, at least I hope they don't. They hang photos or paintings. Why is
> this? Perhaps
> because they value their children (humans) in a substantively different way
> than they value deer (nonhumans)."
>
> Bissell butts in: Of course. Why should we value animals in the same way we
> value our children. They are different. Fundamentally different. That *does
> not* imply that we *do not* value animals. Different values, but not lesser
> values.
>
Dreamer: I grew up in Texas, and I heard a lot of that separate but
equal talk down there. If you can call the value of a being whose head
you cut off and stick up on a wall "different ... but not lesser" than
the value of a being whose picture you put on the mantle, then, by,
golly, you can justify just about any disparate treatment at all. Seems
a little implausible on its face though.
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