Re: Humanism and Animal Rights (omitted link)

David V. wrote:


No, YOU are meaningless. YOU are no one. YOUR challenge is
meaningless. Don't take it personally, you are just not a leader
that can do any challenging, especially when that challenge is
build on strawman arguments.

But the same applies to you, doesn't it? You are not a "leader that can do any challenging", either. Is it how I stated it that so bothers you? Should I have said "I would LIKE to challenge..."? Then you'd be happy? Are you quibbling over how it was worded? I started this thread by supplying what could be useful information to those who are interested in philosophical justifications for animal rights. Perfectly innocent, nothing more. There was no pretension on my part -- it was not MY argument that I was trying to tout. You and your dear friend Roger diverted this in a way that is at best personally degrading to yourselves, as if your most important passtime is inventing reasons to put down other people and their arguments. You seem to live moment to moment, seeking diversions, because there is nothing you hold sacred. Shallow pseudo-intellectual and disconnected trivia attract you and preoccupy you. Ask yourselves what is most sacred, and find something positive there before you carelessly trample other people's good intentions. Someday you will become personally dissatisfied with your own glib and trite retorts, I suspect. Until then, you're trapped in the dim circling of your own thoughts.
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