On Mon, 8 May 2000, Wally Day wrote:

> I'm going to play a devil's advocate role here for a
> minute.
>
> Death results in the total absence all pain and
> suffereing for any given greature. Therefore, I submit
> that we are doing the animals a big favor by stopping
> any potential pain and suffering and "converting" it
> into sustenance for ourselves.

What's good for the goose...  If this argument is sound, then it
is also an argument for obligatory genocide, since we would do
the same big favor for each *human* we kill.

Todd Moody
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