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Good point. I answer that by saying that it's a matter of *how* they
are farmed and killed. Which might also be a good answer to people
who say "hunting is mean!": `Would *you* rather be kept comfortable
and healthy until you're painlessly slaughtered, or would you rather
be gut-shot with lead pellets and then chased through the woods?'
And I agree that it's more "meritorious" to kill and eat somebody
who has fought back, but in our day and age it's certainly more
practical to do that in a gladiator ring.
At least if we should stop wasting land to contain the flesh of
people who've died from strokes or from suicide anyway. Think of
how many Bambis can gambol safely and contentedly in forests that
remain forests rather than graveyards.
D.
"Don't blame the CIA until you've seen all the secret records." -Jonah
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    @thedavid: "[Angsters, backtrack on the References; I'm just to nice to crosspost
whole threads.]
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Why bother bothering animals since that's already the condition of a
lot of human lives? Think of all the suburban teenagers who cut and
burn themselves and OD themselves, and all the people who would answer
personal ads for cannibalism.
Is it better to eat a person who wants to die or who at least already
devalues him/herself, or a cow who's *happy* just to munch clover in
the sunshine? (The cow, do note, ain't posting shit to Usenet.)
D.
"Don't blame the CIA until you've seen all the secret records." -Jonah
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(C) 2003 by `TheDavid^TM' | David, P.O. Box 21403, Louisville, KY 40221"
    @thedavid: "[...]
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It's nice how I'm able to obviate that "dilemma", ain't it!
D.
P.S. I'm wondering what Mike Morris' take on my argument is, in passing.
"Don't blame the CIA until you've seen all the secret records." -Jonah
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(C) 2003 by `TheDavid^TM' | David, P.O. Box 21403, Louisville, KY 40221"
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Many graveyards end up as the only open, green space in crowded city 
neighborhoods, where they are used like parks  unless a community is 
squeamish about this and locks them up, which is plain silly, IMO.
SMC
Crowfoot"
    @thedavid: "[...]
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But if they don't lock them up people might vandalize headstones and
dig up the pickled corpses. We can't have that, can we.
D.
"Don't blame the CIA until you've seen all the secret records." -Jonah
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(C) 2003 by `TheDavid^TM' | David, P.O. Box 21403, Louisville, KY 40221"
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