[374] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
Re: Q
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sandeep Kumar Gupta)
Mon Feb 20 21:31:03 1995
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 21:30:02 -0500 (EST)
From: Sandeep Kumar Gupta <skgupta@AMSTERDAM.LCS.MIT.EDU>
To: dbrooks@MIT.EDU
Cc: vsg@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9502210156.AA29127@al-forno.MIT.EDU>
On Mon, 20 Feb 1995 dbrooks@MIT.EDU wrote:
> Question: What is different about killing plants and killing animals?
Two differences come to mind:
1)Psychologically, we can more easily feel/understand the pain an animal
feels while it is being killed.
2)We do not need to kill animals for food in order to survive. However,
it is generally accepted that we need to eat plants to live. So killing
an animal seems more like a "death with no meaning".
Sandeep
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