Bissell here; Right on Chris. And, the same for the use of pain and
suffering as the basis for an environmental ethic. The denial of death is a
denial of the life process.
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Perley <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask]
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Date: Friday, April 09, 1999 6:57 PM
Subject: RE: Enviroethics and the Problem of Suffering
Dreamer wrote:
Dreamer here:
I've been out of touch for a few days. I'd like to respond to a few
snippets taken out of various letters and possibly various threads.
> >
BIG SNIP
Chris Perley here:
It appears to me that we are once again getting a slide from some
ill-defined definition of "hunting" (only by humans apparently - as
creatures removed from nature) to some loosely related (if at all) forms of
human killing (war, genocide etc), the abhorrence of which we all agree on.
I am confused as to whether you could find ANY death (killing) by ANY human
acceptable. If so, what criteria define your distinction?
It is this apparent anti-death sentiment that I find so bewildering, because
it appears to me to be essentially ecologically unrealistic.
CP
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