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From: "Hank Roth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 8:24 AM
Subject: [pnews-views] Re: [pnews-news] Is There Life in the Universe?
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> Lindy:
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> 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
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> 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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