Re: Time to Start Shooting "animal rights" Psychopaths

On Jul 6, 5:43=A0am, Zapanaz <http://joecosby.com/code/mail.pl>
wrote:
> Dutch hunched over a computer, typing feverishly;
> Thunder crashed, Dutch laughed madly, then wrote:
>
> >Rupert wrote:
> >> Veganism is a perfectly reasonable strategy
> >> for reducing suffering,
>
> >It may be a fairly effective strategy but "perfectly reasonable" would
> >be an overstatement.
>
> Existence is suffering. =A0There is no "fairly effective strategy" to
> reduce suffering.
>

That's stupid. If a few million people go vegan and fewer factory-
farms are built and fewer animals are brought into existence to lead
horrible lives, then something has been done. If Henry Spira managed
to get major cosmetics companies to develop an alternative to the
Draize test, then something has been done. If a few million dollars
are donated to UNICEF and a few thousand under-five deaths are
prevented, then something has been done. Preventing an under-five
death, or getting a company to stop dripping cosmetics into the eyes
of millions of conscious rabbits and holding them in shackles for two
weeks while they go blind, is not a trivial accomplishment.

You might as well say "Why should I bother to get out of bed in the
morning?"

If you want to reduce suffering, there's plenty you can do. It may not
be high on your list of priorities, that's fine. But you shouldn't
pretend it's not one of your options.