Re: Time to Start Shooting "animal rights" Psychopaths

Rupert wrote:
> On Jul 6, 6:45 am, Rudy Canoza <pi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Rupert wrote:
>>> On Jul 6, 1:55 am, Rudy Canoza <pi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> Rupert, slavishly adoring of a third-rate philosophy prof who spent
his
>>>> career at an academic backwater, uncritically quoted the third-rate
prof
>>>> and blabbered:
>>> It would be widely agreed in the academic community
>> No.
>>
>>> that the author of
>>> "The Case for Animal Rights" is not a "third-rate prof
>> Regan spent his entire career at an academic backwater, and if not for
>> having staked out an extreme position on a controversial topic, his
>> entire career would have gone unnoticed in the academic world.
>>
> 
> There's more to it than just taking an extreme position on a
> controversial topic, it's generally agreed that "The Case for Animal
> Rights" is an interesting and well-argued book, with interesting
> remarks about moral methodology, nonhuman animal psychology, and so
> forth. He takes positions on topics other than our treatment of
> nonhuman animals and those are discussed as well.
> 
> Anyway, you think John Rawls should have been thrown out of academia
> (despite not having read any of his books all the way through), 

I think Rawls has an undeservedly bloated reputation in academia because 
his positions are left-wing, and academia is undeniably leftist.  Rawls 
himself, and his acolytes, unreservedly believe in redistribution of 
goods and resources to achieve a nebulous sort of "justice" that Rawls 
has invented.  You yourself, rupie, have cited someone else - seems to 
me his name is Nozick or something like that - who critiques Rawls from 
a libertarian, anti-collectivist perspective.  Sorry, rupie - you, being 
youthful, have an advantage on me.  Rawls and his critics gained their 
academic reputations largely after I left the academic world.

Rawls is a collectivist - you claim to be an anarchist/libertarian, 
although you plainly are not - and I don't have much truck with 
collectivism.