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You can keep repeating yourself, David, but you have missed the point. In fact, philosophers going back to Rousseau and Bentham have argued that it is the ability to suffer, and not the ability to reason, which should define how we treat other beings. Otherwise, you could plausibly cook up a human baby and eat it with no compunction whatsoever, the infant having no capacity to reason as such. What it does have is the ability to feel pain, like every other animal on the planet. Greg McDonald ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
