From: Max M (maxmcorp@worldonline.dk)
Date: Wed Jun 06 2001 - 15:05:00 MDT
> [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]On Behalf Of
> natashavita@earthlink.net
> I certainly do not think cows were designed to be herded together
> for filet mignon or beef Stroganoff. The food chain explains the
> arrangement of organisms of our ecological community according to
> the order of predation in which each life form eats the other or
> lower member as a food source. It isn't a set of rules governing
> a menu of whom should eat whom.
It's funny that this subject should pop up on the list. I have been thinking
about it myself too the last few days.
If change is exponential, then difference is exponential. An SI could very
well be many times more intelligent and sentient than us, than we are more
sentient and intelligent than farm animals.
So if our moral system allows us to eat meat from cows, pigs etc. What is to
morally stop an SI from using us as farm animals? When the posthuman
develops into a still more sophisticated species will the line where
something is considdered animal move to?
"To Serve Man" comes to mind :-)
Well ok maybe we will not be eaten, but we might get the same rights that we
now give animals.
Regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark ... a carnivore.
Max M. W. Rasmussen, Denmark. New Media Director
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