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From: magik@wlcrjs.UUCP (Ben Liberman)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: home defense  (& killing deer)
Message-ID: <729@wlcrjs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 03:25:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: wlcrjs.729
Posted: Tue Jul  2 03:25:28 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 07:47:41 EDT
References: <1195@utcsri.UUCP> <962@mhuxt.UUCP> <1212@utcsri.UUCP>
Reply-To: magik@wlcrjs.UUCP (Ben Liberman)
Organization: chi-net, Public Access UN*X, Chicago IL
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Summary: 

In article <1212@utcsri.UUCP> brown@utcsri.UUCP (Edward Brown) writes:
>[Only two weeks to first line season]
>
>
>>>            There is a definite moral difference between killing
>>> wildlife and supporting the butchering of domestic animals that were raised
>>> for that purpose. (Not that I exclusively object to or condone either).
>			 - me
>
>> So what is that difference?
>>    Jeff Sonntag
>>    ihnp4!mhuxt!js2j
>
>	This is what I perceive as a moral difference:: the domestic animal
>was brought into existance, raised, fed, and cared for by human for the
>express purpose of becoming somebody's food. As such, it is conceiveable
>that these humans have some sort of claim to its life.
>None of these considerations apply to the wild animal, it came into
>exisistance without direct human intervention and therefore man cannot
>claim propriety over its life using the same (however valid) reasoning.

Gosh,  I hope that my parents aren't on the net.  I mean, they did raise, feed
and care for me (for quite a while, I might add)  I'd hate to wind up as lunch
for the PTA or something.
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Ben Liberman   {ihnp4|ihldt}!wlcrjs!magik