Re: virus: Abortion, etc.
Ronald Ferruci (fr5988@wheeler.northland.edu)
Wed, 13 Mar 1996 08:49:56 -0600
I am writing to reply to your e-mail where you said that we are
different from other animals because we think. How do you know that
other animals don't think? I don't know (know in the empirical sense
that knowledge is what you get from expierence) that they can think,
but I believe that it is quite possible that they could. They same
lack of expierence or knowledge that keeps me from being able to say
that they don't think is the same that keeps me from being able to
say that they don't think. We would like to believe that they don't
think and that we are better than them because they don't because
that places us above they and allows us the right to decide which
ones live or die. What makes us different is that we think that we
are better than then and in doing so have brought many of the other
animal species of the world, either to or over the brink of
extinction. And we are dragging ourselves over that edge too.