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To: snarks_when_bored

To steal something - it must be someone else's property. A Mosquito is also an entity. Do not get me wrong, I love nature, not sophistry.


8 posted on 03/08/2005 7:02:08 PM PST by TheHound (You would be paranoid too - if everyone was out to get you.)
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To: TheHound
To steal something - it must be someone else's property. A Mosquito is also an entity. Do not get me wrong, I love nature, not sophistry.

I'm not energetic enough to enter into a long, nuanced discussion of your point. My view is that there are no uniquely privileged entities. The fact that orangutans and other such animals do not speak, and so have no expressed concept of property rights, doesn't seem terribly relevant to the question of whether their habitats should be plundered without regard for their welfare or continuing viability as species.

10 posted on 03/08/2005 7:12:48 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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To: TheHound

Sophistry is okay the third time around.


19 posted on 03/08/2005 8:42:20 PM PST by Old Professer (A man's conscience is like his garden, it is his and his alone to tend.)
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