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The Meat Eaters
New York Times ^
| September 20, 2010
| JEFF MCMAHAN
Posted on 09/20/2010 11:10:35 AM PDT by oldtimer2
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To: Eldon Tyrell
Correct. We answer to God, not the other way around.
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posted on
09/20/2010 12:24:04 PM PDT
by
chesley
(Eat what you want, and die like a man.)
To: Billthedrill
One might as well design a sewing machine around ethical precepts, and in fact, it would be much easier - we actually do know how a sewing machine works. Most excellent analogy, Bill! The same, BTW, is true of our attempts at tinkering with human society. We don't know how to engineer that either.
The Precautionary Principle, a favorite of liberals, would actually be the ultimate in conservatism if applied consistently.
To: mojito
I would have tried to arrange for all conscious individuals to be able to survive without tormenting and killing other conscious individuals.
Great idea, genius. That's exactly what God did. He created the world and animals to serve man. Chickens don't have feelings.
Boy, these tenured professors must be getting desperate. Now they're plagiarizing from the bible!
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posted on
09/20/2010 1:20:17 PM PDT
by
ConservativeWarrior
(In last year's nests, there are no birds this year.)
To: oldtimer2
If this guy goes messing with Mother Nature he will find she is a bitch, just like we have always been saying.
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posted on
09/20/2010 4:55:54 PM PDT
by
oyez
(The difference in genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.)
To: CaptainK
Can you imagine having to sit through a semester of his ponderous classes? Don't bother. He probably does not teach anyway. That's what grad students and assistants are for.
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posted on
09/20/2010 6:22:42 PM PDT
by
thulldud
(Is it "alter or abolish" time yet?)
To: jessduntno
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posted on
09/20/2010 6:27:24 PM PDT
by
Valin
To: oldtimer2
To be entitled to regard ourselves as civilized, we must, like Isaiahs morally reformed lion, eat straw like the ox, or at least the moral equivalent of straw.Feed your Ox straw and he won't be around long. No nutritional value. You need hay, not straw.
Of course, with this guy's worldview, I'm not surprised he does not know the difference.
The moral equivalent of straw (mostly fiber) might cause an outpouring of..., well, something, but it will be 'full of sound and fury and signifying nothing' as the Bard once said. Matter without substance.
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posted on
09/20/2010 9:41:47 PM PDT
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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