From: dalec@socrates.berkeley.edu
Date: Thu Jan 14 1999 - 10:36:26 MST
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
> ...while we often see liberals hacking on how Republicans are pro-life with
> respect to abortion, but not with regard to the death penalty, I wonder why
> liberals can be so damn parsimonious, since they are the opposite, they are pro
> abortion, but against killing animals.....
>
> Mike
I understand but disagree with the arguments that yield the "conservative"
stance. It seems less a simple inconsistency than a skewed prioritizing
of the lives of potential beings over existing ones. As for the corollary
"liberal" inconsistency, notice that the whiff of paradox vanishes if the
"liberal" permits abortions for both human and nonhuman animals, while
also pooh-poohing the consumption of either human or nonhuman animals as
food. Again, existing beings have priority over nonexisting ones. No
inconsistency at all. Best, Dale
Dale Carrico | dalec@socrates.berkeley.edu
University of California at Berkeley, Department of Rhetoric
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