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I guess that is true, but to me that would just mean that everything is cause and effect, with that lovely thing known as free will and of course chance tossed into that. Looking beyond the human level, everything happens for a reason and just doesn't happen out of nowhere. A table will not just...

I would guess that such a thing makes sense from a dharmic point of view. But given my secular, but rooted in the Western tradition combining Judeo-Christian and Graeco-Roman beliefs, I would disagree. Especially, due to my ideological/philosophical leanings, to me it is an unfortunate accident...

That is a pretty good argument. Sometimes you are obligated to another through no choice of your own, or their own. I mean, in even some of the weirdest pro-choice metaphors, they seem to ignore this fact.

Well, such things would be useful since they would help cover for many situations today where things are well, less than clear. And further it would allow us to head off lunatics like Singer. since we have placed the animals in question into a fitting category with moral implications rather than...