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who are you to tell others what to say on a public forum. what are you the subject according to you police, WOW Nowhere have I told you what to say, what I said instead is that I am not going to talk with you given you haven't a clue about the topic and have no interest in finding out. Thanks for y...

veganism is about what people eat; you can't change that though you may try. one's reasons personal or a group due to some agreed reasons such as a religion or philosophy and call it veganism. it doesn’t matter, it’s a diet that is exercised for what ever reason. People eat any diet for reasons, an...

It is on subject, isn’t it? Not really, ethical veganism isn't a diet. The diet is a consequence of the ethics. The post is meant to identify the underlying ethical principles and explain what being "vegan" means (I put vegan here in quotes because I don't really think the average person ...

My first reaction is that I think rights is the wrong way to go to make this argument. I think compassion or empathy for other life forms is much better approach. Just to emphasise, I am not proposing that animals have rights. I am drawing a parallel between veganism and the everyday ethics governi...

Oh. Ok, you want animals to have basically the same rights as humans because you think it is unethical for the likes of a chicken to be locked up in a coop..we should set all the chickens loose? What do we do about the foxes? So along the lines of what Iwannaplato stated, is it unethical for a lion...

]If we begin to assume animals have rights like humans, wouldn't we then also have to hold them to responsibilities also? IOW aren't animal carnivores disrespecting the rights of the animals they kill and eat? Does it hold for other rights? Do we start looking at sexual encounters between animals t...

... So can't ride horses anymore? ... Do you think a chicken thinks about the fact that it is in a coop, it lays eggs that disappear and every now and then one of its mates disappear!? So I can't eat eggs? I can't eat chickens? ... I agree to that. Animals I want to eat should be killed in the nice...

one's preferences to diet isn't an issue of ethics though some morons try to make it a self-righteous issue. Some jerkoffs try to apply their self-righteousness to the Bible but God’s covenant (agreement) with Noah and his children (meaning us) its ok the eat just about anything that moves. As far ...

What is the difference between 'ethical veganism' and just plain old 'veganism', to you? I think there really is only ethical veganism. Other interpretations include "veganism" as a diet for sentimental reasons or to address environmental concerns. These examples are more like personal st...

I have posted here in Applied Ethics because veganism is exactly that, the application of ethics into everyday behaviours. Hopefully this is a good place for such a discussion. I want to offer an explanation of ethical veganism. Ethical veganism is variously described as a philosophy and a lifestyle...

I agree that considered from a purely physical, materialistic perspective, "consciousness" can only be physical states of some material object and on those grounds clearly there are many gradations of those states (the state of a collection of 100 billion neurons is presumably more complex...

"If you stay in a materialistic context, the answer is easy: there are infinite degrees and qualities of consciousness, starting from the consciousness of a stone, until that of Einstein. If you instead mix with unclear ideas about "feeling like a cow" everything becomes difficult, i...

I am interested in the opinions of others on the question of minds in other animals. In my view, consciousness (experience) is an information processing event. Sensory information is computed to provide directions for behaviour. The aim of consciousness is much as claimed by Solms and Friston - to m...

some sentences can contradict themselves, such as "everything i say is a lie" can't be true or false, because if everything i say is a lie, it would include this sentence, making it true, which makes it false, because then i wouldn't be lying, so everything i say isn't a lie. " every...

alpha, I thought about this again and agree completely that the sentence has to be considered in relation to another sentence, which was my original point. I went back and reread a couple of explanations (eg Stanfords: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/liar-paradox/ ) and as far as I can tell, they ...