RE: virus: The world keeps on spinning...

From: Richard Ridge (richard_ridge@tao-group.com)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 07:00:33 MST


I wrote:

> Yes - one of my problems with certain strains of vegetarianism is that it
> seems to be a kind of moral squeamishness, an attempt to sanitise nature,
> rather than having anything to do with 'inter-species ethics.' If such an
> ethics could be firmly elaborated, I would probably think a good
> deal better of vegetarianism than I can currently claim to.

and found the largely unconvincing:

http://www2.utep.edu/~best/ethics.htm

The site is a useful summary of the arguments possible on this issue though.



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