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[RC] Slaughter - k s swigartTruman said: I'm not going to comment on pros or cons of who eats what animals for what reason. However, in some islands in the Pacific - probably other places people used (and I suspect in some still do) eat people. According to the argument below that's okay? Here in America we have laws against killing people, not just against anybody consuming them after they are dead. And, in fact, I have a little pink dot on my driver's license that says it is okay to consume my body parts (i.e. make use of them in some body else's living body) after I am dead, even though there are some religions that forbid this practice. It isn't legal to give a person a massive drug over-dose and bury them either (although there is currently great debate as to whether it ought to be legal to help people do this to themselves if they want to). However, nowhere in the current "anti-horse slaughter" law is anybody proposing that it be made illegal to kill a horse. This law is entirely about how to dispose of the carcass of a dead horse. Note that there isn't anything in the law making it illegal to slaughter a horse and feed it to a lion, so it isn't even the method of killing that the law prohibits. But it is illegal to kill a person and feed it to a lion. Making a comparison to the laws we have against killing people (whether they get eaten or not) just because there are some cultures that may still practice canibalism is irrelevant. In stuctured debate, what Truman has done is make what is called a "false analogy." In debate competition, you lose points for doing that. kat Orange County, Calif. :) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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