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At 08:21 AM 10/6/99 -0600, you wrote:
>I wrote a short paper, unpublished, about this a couple of years ago. Many
>of the Animal Rights people liken themselves to the abolitionist/civil
>rights movement. The progression is from non-violence in the sense used by
>Ghandi and Thoreau to that modified by John Brown and others into justified
>violence. The ALF people are kidding themselves when they say they are
>commited to non-violence and then burn buildings down. Arson is an act of
>violence regardless of whether a human gets hurt or not.
I would have to disagree with the above. Arson is an act of civil
disobedience, not
one of violence in this context. Still, what they are after is the
immediate discontinuation of
the killing of animals for pleasure and profit. How can one be opposed to
such a ideal?
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Michael B. Harris
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"It is only amoung fools that the wise are judged to be destitute
of wisdom." --Socrates
"Any logically coherent body of doctrine is sure to be in part painful
and contrary to current prejudices." --Socrates
"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you
do it." --Mahatma Gandhi
``The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can
be judged by the way its animals are treated.''
Mahatma Ghandi
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