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>From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: re re ai failures
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <zlsiida.112@fs1.mcc.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <1992May1.193141.24350@psych.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 1 May 1992 19:31:41 GMT

In article <zlsiida.112@fs1.mcc.ac.uk> zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (dave budd) writes:
>I've never had a pet that 'I just got tired of'
>I think a lot of nonsense gets talked about when it is or isn't OK to kill
>things, though I don't kill anything myself except for food or clothing or
>in self protection.  

Really???!!!! Do you breathe (in things)? Do you walk (on things)?
Do you occasionally get insects in your eye? Do you sometimes slap them
dead just because they're annoying -- say, mosquitos? Do you buy silly
little trinkets from foreign countries where working conditions contribute
to the early death of the workers? Do you ever buy flowers? Did you know
that in the greenhouses in which carnations are grown the workers are sprayed
with pesticides daily? Do you buy tuna, the catching of which leads to the
death of hundreds of thousands of dolphins and whales annually? Do you ever
fly in planes, which kill millions of birds annually?
Do you feel silly about being so self-righteous yet?


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Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
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