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Lindy:
I think that is right. If there is life it is meaningful to that life. It
must be. I believe that is imprinted in DNA and/or myth-based cultural
memes and that is what may have saved us 60,000 years ago in Africa when
our particular species was about to go out of existence. I think the need
to save their lives, those 2,000 or so which are our ancestors, all of us,
and why they sought better weather out of Africa which then was a dessert
to the Middle East and Europe and to Eurasia and that imprint is what
sustains life in a very deep and profound way -- and perhaps that is why
also that religion began at all..
Caring about animals is a virtue which you and I share. There is not that
much that is different between animals and us except the way we each try
to survive but we owe domesticated animals a debt for causing them to
change and become dependent on us and we owe non-domesticated animals less
of a debt because they like us are part of the same food chain (and that
is arguable) but caring about their pain is what makes us human and indeed
that is a value we need to curry and maintain.
Hank
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Lindy Greene wrote:
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> My sister and I were discussing this very subject, coincidentally. I think
> life is both meaningless and meangful. From a "cosmic" standpoint, I see it
> as just a random event with no particular significance - whether it's unique
> to Earth or a commonplace in multiple galaxies.
>
> All the elements are fused in stars. So, the ingredients for life must be
> delivered (via comet and meteor strikes) to other planets in other solar
> systems, as well. If conditions are such elsewhere that life as we know it
> can be supported, perhaps it has germinated in other locations in the
> universe. Life as we know it on Earth is photosynthetically driven.
>
> To those who possess life, it is meaningful. Every living thing values - or
> at least strives to safeguard - its life. I am an animal rights activist.
> So, I fight to have the lives of animals respected.
>
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