At Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:20:18 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
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>---"Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@together.net> wrote:
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>> Harvey Newstrom wrote:
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>> > "Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@together.net> wrote:
>> > > Thank you very much. This is an excellent reference.
>> > > We can also look to actual people who live exclusively on meat
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>> > Why should we look to them any more than looking to vegetarians?
>> > The human body can adapt to any number of culturally diverse diets.
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>> It may adapt, but what is it most efficiently evolved for? The page
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>> optimized for a meat diet. On a basis of natural law, this means
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>> is in fact not naturally immoral for humans to kill animals and eat
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>> meat. One might say that it is more moral than displacing herbivorous
>> animals in the food chain of an ecosystem with humans practicing the
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>> efficient herbivorous lifestyle.
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>> Mike Lorrey
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>When we can create our own engineered "meat" will this conversation
>even mean anything? Would vegitarians be more willing to eat beef
>because no cows were harmed?
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Likewise, post-uploading, will even the concept of property any longer possess either meaning or utility to virtual citizens?
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