Two things:
Thanks Joy, I have really enjoyed your passionate posts. Good
luck on your firewalk. I have often heard that the first pictures of the
earth radicalized many people as you have described. I hope that the
image still hold power for the new generations as well.
Also, even though I am an American, I very much appreciate the
posts from outside the US. It helps us all to think about the diversity
of opinion both in country and around the world.
Globally,
Michelle
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Mar 21 11:40:33 MST 1995
21 Mar 95 13:40:51 GMT-5
From: "Brian A. Luke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: University of Dayton
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 13:40:33 EST
Subject: Re: ecofeminism and animal rights
> I find the greatest difficulties arise when we try to
> determine the duties associated with the rights of animals and, as
> some would assert, the rights of other entities (both sentient and
> non-sentient). The question asked above become even more
> difficult to answer as issues of priority arise, e.g. in the choice
> between a human life and an animal life, which do I count as more
> important? Is the survival of a species of non-human life worth the
> life of a single human being?...or two human beings...or how many?
>
Yes, these are difficult conflicts to resolve. Fortunately, at a
practical level (as opposed to theoretical points about "rights"),
when we talk about animal rights we're talking about abuses of
animals that do not involve such priority conflicts between a human
and a nonhuman life. The three big institutions criticized by the
animal "rights" movement are animal farming (including meat, fur,
leather, etc.), animal experimentation and hunting. Certainly animal
farming and hunting are not done to save human lives, and, arguably
neither is animal experimentation. I believe that we would in fact
be BETTER OFF, healthier, without animal experimentation, but that's
a long, technical discussion for another day.
Brian
