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To: kattracks
criticized American Christianity for its fundamentalist strain that takes the Bible too "literally" and promotes "speciesism." He defined speciesism as the belief that being a member of a certain species "makes you superior to any other being that is not a member of that species.

When asked by CNSNews.com why humans should not be able to eat animals when animals eat other animals, Singer acknowledged that humans have to be held to a different standard. "Animals generally are not making moral choices. Animals are not the same as humans. They can't reflect on what they are doing and think about the alternatives. Humans can.

I guess he doesn't see the obvious contradiction of these two statements.

17 posted on 07/01/2002 5:47:31 AM PDT by asformeandformyhouse
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To: asformeandformyhouse
Ah, I see that "great" minds think alike. You're just faster on the trigger than I.
21 posted on 07/01/2002 5:50:01 AM PDT by BlueLancer
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To: asformeandformyhouse
Singer, author of the book "Animal Liberation" and a professor of bioethics at Princeton University's Center for Human Values

Yeah, just like the irony of him working at a place for human values

90 posted on 07/01/2002 9:06:20 AM PDT by wallcrawlr
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To: asformeandformyhouse
I guess he doesn't see the obvious contradiction of these two statements.

He ain't going for logical coherency. None of these folks do; it's counterproductive to their purposes or something. He's just another shock jock.

105 posted on 07/01/2002 11:50:07 AM PDT by maxwell
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To: asformeandformyhouse
BINGO! You nailed it.
142 posted on 07/08/2002 9:05:36 AM PDT by Terriergal
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