• Some emotions animals don't experience

    From Rudy Canoza@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 21 09:38:11 2015
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian

    Disappointment

    The other day, as I was about to take my son to school, I asked my dog
    if she wanted to go for a ride in the car with us, something she loves
    doing. She ran to the front door, eager to go. As we started to go
    out, I realized I was going to have to leave her in the car for a while,
    as I had to go into the school office. It was a hot day - too hot to
    leave the dog in the car, even with the windows down a little - so I
    left her in the house. She didn't do anything, didn't look "sad" or
    anything else. She looked and behaved exactly as she does when I leave
    the house and don't take her any other time.

    When I asked her again yesterday, as I was getting ready to leave to go
    pick my son up after school, she ran to the front door again, eager to
    go. There was no distrustful look, nothing that said, "Ah, you're just
    going to trick me again."

    Dogs and other animals don't experience disappointment. That's purely a
    human emotion.

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  • From Derek@21:1/5 to All on Fri Aug 21 19:22:49 2015
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian

    On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:38:11 -0700, Rudy Canoza
    <LaLaLaLaLaLa@philhendrie.con> wrote:

    <snipped anecdotal garbage presented as evidence to base a nonsense claim>

    Dogs and other animals don't experience disappointment.

    Take a look at the faces on the dogs in the pictures in this link http://bit.ly/1NKoKDz and try deluding yourself again that those tormented animals aren't suffering disappointment and a great many other emotions
    human experience. Don't look away. Go down the page and look at all of them.

    That's purely a human emotion.

    Ipse dixit. You'd say anything to trivialise the suffering you and your type inflict on animals to head off criticism.

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  • From Rudy Canoza@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 22 11:47:26 2015
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian

    Schadenfreude

    That's the emotion of taking satisfaction in the misfortune that befalls another. It usually, but not necessarily, is somewhat concealed, and
    the person to whom the misfortune occurs is usually someone for whom the
    person experiencing the emotion feels some animus, but in its broadest
    sense it covers laughing at a stranger slipping on a banana peel. The
    more nuanced sense would exclude the banana peel accident. The nuanced
    sense includes the idea that the person experiencing the emotion feels
    the victim in some way deserved the misfortune.

    Animals don't experience Schadenfreude (capitalized because it's a
    German noun by origin.) They can't, because animals do not have a sense
    of desert - of morally deserving something.

    I believe most "vegans" have an excessive sense of Schadenfreude. Most
    "vegan" are delighted when they learn that someone has had some
    misfortune possibly as a result of eating meat or consuming other animal products.

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  • From Rudy Canoza@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 25 14:25:44 2015
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian

    Pride (in achievement)

    Animals don't take pride in the achievements of themselves or of their offspring, siblings, fellow members of the pack or herd or flock, etc.
    There are a lot of reasons for this. First of all, animals don't have
    any sense of achievement in the first place. They just do what they are programmed to do. Second, they don't set goals for themselves that
    require dedication and effort to master. Third, they don't have any
    ability to evaluate the performance of one animal in comparison with the performance of other animals and judge the one "superior."

    If a predator catches prey, it doesn't feel any pride in it; it just
    eats. The contrary is also true: if a predator attempts to catch prey
    and fails, it feels no shame.

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  • From Rudy Canoza@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 27 08:16:50 2015
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian

    Anticipation

    Animals cannot experience the emotion of anticipation. By anticipation,
    we do not mean the sense of mere expectation, which after all isn't an
    emotion. If I go to where my dog's food is kept at the time I usually
    feed her (6:00am and 6:00pm), she expects I'm going to feed her. At
    3:00pm, she does not experience the emotion of anticipation about being
    fed at 6:00pm.

    If you tell a five year old child in the middle of September that you're
    going to take her to Disneyland for her birthday at the end of October,
    the child will have an emotional reaction of pleasurable excitement contemplating her trip to Disneyland. That emotion is anticipation.
    Animals can't experience it, because they have no concept of future.

    Animals can anticipate or expect an imminent event, based on simple
    triggers, but they cannot experience the emotion of anticipation, which
    is different from mere expectation.

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  • From Rudy Canoza@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 31 09:51:57 2015
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian

    Envy

    Animals do not experience envy. Envy is not only wanting something that another has, but specifically *not* wanting the other to have it. If
    you have two dogs and one bone and give the bone to one dog to gnaw on,
    the other dog will want to take it, but not because he wants the other
    dog not to have a bone. If you have two bones and give one to each dog,
    both dogs will not care that the other has a bone; if one bone is
    significantly larger than the other, the dog with the smaller bone won't
    care, because he has a bone on which to gnaw, and that's all he cares about.

    Animals don't experience envy.

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  • From james g. keegan jr.@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 3 11:15:41 2015
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian

    On 9/2/2015 6:19 PM, Fuckwit David Harrison lied:
    too stupid to comprehend that animals experience emotions, but

    Animals experience only the most simple and basic emotions: fear,
    aggression, contentment.

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  • From mur@21:1/5 to Derek on Wed Sep 2 21:19:28 2015
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian

    On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 19:22:49 +0100, Derek <dereknash@groupmail.com> wrote:

    On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:38:11 -0700, Rudy Canoza ><LaLaLaLaLaLa@philhendrie.con> wrote:

    <snipped anecdotal garbage presented as evidence to base a nonsense claim>

    Dogs and other animals don't experience disappointment.

    Take a look at the faces on the dogs in the pictures in this link >http://bit.ly/1NKoKDz and try deluding yourself again that those tormented >animals aren't suffering disappointment and a great many other emotions
    human experience. Don't look away. Go down the page and look at all of them.

    Goo MAY BE too stupid to comprehend that animals experience emotions, but more likely he lies about that like all the other things he lies about. The only
    question about his lies is why he tells them, but it still seems clear that he tells them to support the eliminationist position.

    That's purely a human emotion.

    Ipse dixit. You'd say anything to trivialise the suffering you and your type >inflict on animals to head off criticism.

    All of you eliminationists agree with Goo about his following claims:

    "Causing the animals to exist is not "contributing to their lives."" - Goo

    "Coming into existence - that is, "getting to experience life" - is not a benefit for livestock animals. It is a benefit only for those who wish
    to consume products made from those animals." - Goo

    "The chickens "getting to experience life" is not *ANY* kind of good thing,
    for them, versus never existing." - Goo

    "The "experiencing" of life is morally meaningless." - Goo

    "they do not "benefit" in any way from coming into existence, versus never existing." - Goo

    "The emotion of expectation is *much* more than mere expectation" - Goo

    "It is not to my son's advantage to have been born versus never existing" - Goo

    "coming into existence didn't make me better off than I was before." - Goo

    "Not existing is not equivalent to "being nothing."" - Goo

    "Animals do not "benefit" in any way from coming into existence, versus
    never existing." - Goo

    "...existence, or "getting to experience life", is not a benefit compared
    with never existing." - Goo

    "it is not "better" that the animal exist, no matter
    its quality of live" - Goo

    "It is not a "benefit" to come into existence and "get to experience life" instead of
    never existing" - Goo

    "A life - *any* life of *any* quality - is not a "benefit" to an animal versus never existing" - Goo

    "Coming into existence is not a benefit compared with never existing - proved." - Goo

    "Existence doesn't improve welfare versus never existing" - Goo

    "according to me, existence is not a benefit - ever." - Goo

    "animals' "getting to experience life" is nonsense." - Goo

    "the moral harm caused by killing them is greater in magnitude
    than ANY benefit they might derive from "decent lives" - Goo

    "no matter how "decent" the conditions are, the deliberate killing
    of the animals erases all of it." - Goo

    ""giving them life" does NOT mitigate the wrongness of
    their deaths" - Goo

    "It is not "better" for the animals to experience a good life than
    never to live at all." - Goo

    ""Getting to experience life" has no significance." - Goo

    "Rights are not given. Rights exist." - Goo

    "It is not "good" for the animals that they exist, no matter
    how pleasant the condition of their existence." - Goo

    "It is not "good for them" to exist, no matter how pleasant
    the existence." - Goo

    "it is not "better" that the animal exist, no matter
    its quality of live" - Goo

    "It is not "better" in any moral way, and not in *any* way
    at all to the animal itself, that the animal exists." - Goo

    "Coming into existence is not a benefit to them: it does
    not make them better off than before they existed." - Goo

    "Life -per se- NEVER is a "benefit" to animals or even
    to humans . . . "getting to experience life" is not
    a benefit." - Goo

    "When considering your food choices ethically, assign
    ZERO weight to the morally empty fact that choosing to
    eat meat causes animals to be bred into existence." - Goo

    "I have examined the question at length, and feel
    there is only one reasonable conclusion: life, per se,
    is not a benefit." - Goo

    "Being born is not a benefit in any way. It can't be." - Goo

    "It is morally wrong, in an absolute sense - unjust, in other
    words - if humans kill animals they don't need to kill, i.e. not
    in self defense. There's your answer. " - Goo

    "Life "justifying" death is the
    stupidest goddamned thing you ever wrote." - Goo

    "NO livestock benefit from being farmed." - Goo

    "No farm animals benefit from farming." - Goo

    "There is nothing to "appreciate" about the livestock "getting
    to experience life" - Goo

    "the "getting to experience life" deserves NO moral
    consideration, and is given none; the deliberate killing
    of animals for use by humans DOES deserve moral
    consideration, and gets it." - Goo

    ""giving them life" does NOT mitigate the wrongness of
    their deaths" - Goo

    "Causing animals to be born and "get to experience life"
    (in Fuckwit's wretched prose) is no mitigation at all for
    killing them." - Goo

    "When considering your food choices ethically, assign
    ZERO weight to the morally empty fact that choosing to
    eat meat causes animals to be bred into existence." - Goo

    "The meaningless fact-lette that farm animals "get to
    experience life" deserves no consideration when asking
    whether or not it is moral to kill them. Zero." - Goo

    "the nutritionally unnecessary choice deliberately to kill an animal
    ALWAYS causes a moral harm greater in magnitude than . . . the
    moral "benefit" realized by the animal in existing at all" - Goo

    "the moral harm caused by killing them is greater in magnitude
    than ANY benefit they might derive from "decent lives" - Goo

    "no matter how "decent" the conditions are, the deliberate killing
    of the animals erases all of it." - Goo

    "it is not "better" that the animal exist, no matter
    its quality of live" - Goo

    "It is not "better" in any moral way, and not in *any* way
    at all to the animal itself, that the animal exists." - Goo

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  • From Derek@21:1/5 to mur on Thu Sep 3 16:01:40 2015
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian

    On Wed, 02 Sep 2015 21:19:28 -0400, mur wrote:

    On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 19:22:49 +0100, Derek <dereknash@groupmail.com> wrote:

    On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:38:11 -0700, Rudy Canoza >><LaLaLaLaLaLa@philhendrie.con> wrote:

    <snipped anecdotal garbage presented as evidence to base a nonsense claim>

    Dogs and other animals don't experience disappointment.

    Take a look at the faces on the dogs in the pictures in this link >>http://bit.ly/1NKoKDz and try deluding yourself again that those tormented >>animals aren't suffering disappointment and a great many other emotions >>human experience. Don't look away. Go down the page and look at all of them.

    Goo MAY BE too stupid to comprehend that animals experience emotions,

    I'm certain that dogs do share some of our emotions but unsure whether they share some of the more complex ones. Something worth mentioning here is something I read in wiki;

    [Psychology research has shown that when humans gaze at the face of another human, the gaze is not symmetrical; the gaze instinctively moves to the
    right side of the face to obtain information about their emotions and state. Research at the University of Lincoln shows that dogs share this instinct
    when meeting a human, and only when meeting a human (i.e., not other animals
    or other dogs). They are the only non-primate species known to share this instinct.]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_in_animals

    but
    more likely he lies about that like all the other things he lies about. The only
    question about his lies is why he tells them,

    He tells them to escape responsibility, guilt and criticism. Take the below exchange between him and a police officer who recently pulled him over for speeding, for example, and see how cleverly he escapes all three.

    Officer: May I see your driver's license?
    Jon: I don't have one. I had it suspended when I got my 5th DUI.
    Officer: May I see the owner's card for this vehicle?
    Jon: It's not my car. I stole it.
    Officer: The car is stolen?
    Jon: That's right. But come to think of it, I think I saw the owner's card
    in the glove box when I was putting my gun in there.
    Officer: There's a gun in the glove box?
    Jon: Yes sir. That's where I put it after I shot and killed the woman who
    owns this car and stuffed her in the trunk.
    Officer: There's a BODY in the TRUNK?!?!?
    Jon: Yes, sir.
    Hearing this, the officer immediately called his captain. The car was
    quickly surrounded by police, and the captain approached Jon to handle the tense situation:
    Captain: Sir, can I see your license?
    Jon: Sure. Here it is.
    It was valid.
    Captain: Who's car is this?
    Jon: It's mine, officer. Here's the owner' card.
    Jon did own the car.
    Captain: Could you slowly open your glove box so I can see if there's a gun
    in it?
    Jon: Yes, sir, but there's no gun in it.
    Sure enough, there was nothing in the glove box.
    Captain: Would you mind opening your trunk? I was told you said there's a
    body in it.
    Jon: No problem.
    Trunk is opened; no body.
    Captain: I don't understand it. The officer who stopped you said you told
    him you didn't have a license, stole the car, had a gun in the glovebox, and that there was a dead body in the trunk.
    Jon: Yeah, I'll bet the liar told you I was speeding, too.

    but it still seems clear that he
    tells them to support the eliminationist position.

    That's purely a human emotion.

    Ipse dixit. You'd say anything to trivialise the suffering you and your type >>inflict on animals to head off criticism.

    All of you eliminationists agree with Goo about his following claims:

    "Causing the animals to exist is not "contributing to their lives."" - Goo

    "Coming into existence - that is, "getting to experience life" - is not a >benefit for livestock animals. It is a benefit only for those who wish
    to consume products made from those animals." - Goo

    "The chickens "getting to experience life" is not *ANY* kind of good thing, >for them, versus never existing." - Goo

    "The "experiencing" of life is morally meaningless." - Goo

    "they do not "benefit" in any way from coming into existence, versus never >existing." - Goo

    "The emotion of expectation is *much* more than mere expectation" - Goo

    "It is not to my son's advantage to have been born versus never existing" - Goo

    "coming into existence didn't make me better off than I was before." - Goo

    "Not existing is not equivalent to "being nothing."" - Goo

    "Animals do not "benefit" in any way from coming into existence, versus
    never existing." - Goo

    "...existence, or "getting to experience life", is not a benefit compared >with never existing." - Goo

    "it is not "better" that the animal exist, no matter
    its quality of live" - Goo

    "It is not a "benefit" to come into existence and "get to experience life" >instead of
    never existing" - Goo

    "A life - *any* life of *any* quality - is not a "benefit" to an animal versus >never existing" - Goo

    "Coming into existence is not a benefit compared with never existing - proved."
    - Goo

    "Existence doesn't improve welfare versus never existing" - Goo

    "according to me, existence is not a benefit - ever." - Goo

    "animals' "getting to experience life" is nonsense." - Goo

    "the moral harm caused by killing them is greater in magnitude
    than ANY benefit they might derive from "decent lives" - Goo

    "no matter how "decent" the conditions are, the deliberate killing
    of the animals erases all of it." - Goo

    ""giving them life" does NOT mitigate the wrongness of
    their deaths" - Goo

    "It is not "better" for the animals to experience a good life than
    never to live at all." - Goo

    ""Getting to experience life" has no significance." - Goo

    "Rights are not given. Rights exist." - Goo

    "It is not "good" for the animals that they exist, no matter
    how pleasant the condition of their existence." - Goo

    "It is not "good for them" to exist, no matter how pleasant
    the existence." - Goo

    "it is not "better" that the animal exist, no matter
    its quality of live" - Goo

    "It is not "better" in any moral way, and not in *any* way
    at all to the animal itself, that the animal exists." - Goo

    "Coming into existence is not a benefit to them: it does
    not make them better off than before they existed." - Goo

    "Life -per se- NEVER is a "benefit" to animals or even
    to humans . . . "getting to experience life" is not
    a benefit." - Goo

    "When considering your food choices ethically, assign
    ZERO weight to the morally empty fact that choosing to
    eat meat causes animals to be bred into existence." - Goo

    "I have examined the question at length, and feel
    there is only one reasonable conclusion: life, per se,
    is not a benefit." - Goo

    "Being born is not a benefit in any way. It can't be." - Goo

    "It is morally wrong, in an absolute sense - unjust, in other
    words - if humans kill animals they don't need to kill, i.e. not
    in self defense. There's your answer. " - Goo

    "Life "justifying" death is the
    stupidest goddamned thing you ever wrote." - Goo

    "NO livestock benefit from being farmed." - Goo

    "No farm animals benefit from farming." - Goo

    "There is nothing to "appreciate" about the livestock "getting
    to experience life" - Goo

    "the "getting to experience life" deserves NO moral
    consideration, and is given none; the deliberate killing
    of animals for use by humans DOES deserve moral
    consideration, and gets it." - Goo

    ""giving them life" does NOT mitigate the wrongness of
    their deaths" - Goo

    "Causing animals to be born and "get to experience life"
    (in Fuckwit's wretched prose) is no mitigation at all for
    killing them." - Goo

    "When considering your food choices ethically, assign
    ZERO weight to the morally empty fact that choosing to
    eat meat causes animals to be bred into existence." - Goo

    "The meaningless fact-lette that farm animals "get to
    experience life" deserves no consideration when asking
    whether or not it is moral to kill them. Zero." - Goo

    "the nutritionally unnecessary choice deliberately to kill an animal
    ALWAYS causes a moral harm greater in magnitude than . . . the
    moral "benefit" realized by the animal in existing at all" - Goo

    "the moral harm caused by killing them is greater in magnitude
    than ANY benefit they might derive from "decent lives" - Goo

    "no matter how "decent" the conditions are, the deliberate killing
    of the animals erases all of it." - Goo

    "it is not "better" that the animal exist, no matter
    its quality of live" - Goo

    "It is not "better" in any moral way, and not in *any* way
    at all to the animal itself, that the animal exists." - Goo

    Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen those quotes more times than I can remember.
    They don't achieve anything. Try looking at your argument, that coming into existence is a benefit, in the following way. Think of the term benefit in
    its proper forward tense and you'll be home and dry. Examples? Eating is a benefit because it stops me from feeling hungry later. Learning to swim is a benefit because it allows me to exercise and may save my life. Coming into
    my inheritance is a benefit because it allows me to pay off my debtors.
    Coming into class is a benefit because it allows me to learn. Coming into existence is a benefit because it allows me to continue existing. Everything
    I benefit from now is because of an earlier event. Coming into existence
    must be one of those events.

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  • From Rudy Canoza@21:1/5 to Derek on Thu Oct 1 21:59:31 2015
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian

    On 8/21/2015 11:22 AM, Derek wrote:
    On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:38:11 -0700, Rudy Canoza <LaLaLaLaLaLa@philhendrie.con> wrote:

    <snipped anecdotal garbage presented as evidence to base a nonsense claim>

    Dogs and other animals don't experience disappointment.

    Take a look at the faces on the dogs in the pictures in this link http://bit.ly/1NKoKDz and

    No disappointment - most of those dogs pictured are already dead, so we
    can be confident they don't experience any emotion at all.

    I just confirmed again that dogs don't suffer disappointment. Earlier
    today, I was heading out of the house, and I inadvertently jangled my
    key ring. My dog ran to the door, as she recognizes that as a signal of
    my departure and often she gets to accompany me. I told her she
    couldn't go, and she just looked at me and didn't try to bolt out of the
    house. When I returned, she greeted me with the same enthusiasm as on
    any other return. Later, when I was heading out again and jangled the
    keys to let her know she could accompany me, she came running to the
    door with her usual enthusiasm - no disappointment.

    Dogs and other animals do not experience disappointment. That's purely
    a human emotion.


    --

    Any serious look at the history of human beings over the millennia shows
    that the species began in poverty. It is not poverty, but prosperity,
    that needs explaining. Poverty is automatic, but prosperity requires
    many things -- none of which is equally distributed around the world or
    even within a given society.

    Thomas Sowell

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  • From Derek@21:1/5 to LaLaLaLaLaLa@philhendrie.con on Fri Oct 2 09:54:09 2015
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian

    On Thu, 1 Oct 2015 21:59:31 -0700, Rudy Canoza
    <LaLaLaLaLaLa@philhendrie.con> wrote:

    On 8/21/2015 11:22 AM, Derek wrote:
    On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:38:11 -0700, Rudy Canoza
    <LaLaLaLaLaLa@philhendrie.con> wrote:

    <snipped anecdotal garbage presented as evidence to base a nonsense claim> >>
    Dogs and other animals don't experience disappointment.

    Take a look at the faces on the dogs in the pictures in this link
    http://bit.ly/1NKoKDz and

    No disappointment - most of those dogs pictured are already dead

    No, the vast majority were still alive in cages, being dragged out of their cages on the end of a looped length of wood, and some of them were trying to climb out of pots of boiling water. They most certainly were very
    disappointed, to say the least. If you had gone to that link and not shrunk away from looking at all the photos, you would see that the majority of
    those dogs were alive and thoroughly disappointed. But you didn't. You
    probably didn't even have the guts to click on it and see the agonies you're
    so desperately trying to trivialise.

    I just confirmed again that dogs don't suffer disappointment.

    Rather, you have not confirmed that dogs don't suffer disappointment. What
    you have confirmed is that you're an enabler and an apologist for the atrocities seen in those pictures.

    <anecdotal evidence not supporting claim dismissed>

    Dogs and other animals do not experience disappointment.

    There's a lot of sound evidence to show that apes and other primates do experience disappointment. Seems obvious to me that you know very little
    about animals, apart from carving them up and trivialising the suffering
    they go through before reaching your plate. Apes, in particular, share a lot
    of our emotions. There's no denying it.

    [Beyond such anecdotal evidence, support for empathetic reactions has come
    from experimental studies of rhesus macaques. Macaques refused to pull a
    chain that delivered food to themselves if doing so also caused a companion
    to receive an electric shock. This inhibition of hurting another conspecific was more pronounced between familiar than unfamiliar macaques, a finding similar to that of empathy in humans.] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_in_animals#Primates

    That's purely a human emotion.

    Evidence, please. Real evidence; not the anecdotal rubbish you keep trying
    to offer.

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  • From mur@.@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 24 15:51:05 2015
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian

    On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 11:15:41 -0700, Goo claimed:

    On 9/2/2015 6:19 PM, Fuckwit David Harrison lied:
    too stupid to comprehend that animals experience emotions, but

    Animals experience only the most simple and basic emotions: fear, >aggression, contentment.

    Try backing up that claim, Goo.

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  • From Rudy Canoza@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 24 14:31:56 2015
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian

    On 10/24/2015 12:51 PM, Fuckwit David Harrison, stupid pig-fucker, lied:
    On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 11:15:41 -0700, james g. keegan jr. wrote:

    On 9/2/2015 6:19 PM, Fuckwit David Harrison lied:
    too stupid to comprehend that animals experience emotions, but

    Animals experience only the most simple and basic emotions: fear,
    aggression, contentment.

    Try backing up that claim

    Done, ages ago.

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  • From mur@.@21:1/5 to Derek on Sat Oct 24 15:51:14 2015
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian

    On Thu, 03 Sep 2015 16:01:40 +0100, Derek <dereknash@groupmail.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 02 Sep 2015 21:19:28 -0400, mur wrote:

    On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 19:22:49 +0100, Derek <dereknash@groupmail.com> wrote:

    On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:38:11 -0700, Goo wrote:

    <snipped anecdotal garbage presented as evidence to base a nonsense claim> >>>
    Dogs and other animals don't experience disappointment.

    Take a look at the faces on the dogs in the pictures in this link >>>http://bit.ly/1NKoKDz and try deluding yourself again that those tormented >>>animals aren't suffering disappointment and a great many other emotions >>>human experience. Don't look away. Go down the page and look at all of them. >>
    Goo MAY BE too stupid to comprehend that animals experience emotions,

    I'm certain that dogs do share some of our emotions but unsure whether they >share some of the more complex ones. Something worth mentioning here is >something I read in wiki;

    [Psychology research has shown that when humans gaze at the face of another
    human, the gaze is not symmetrical; the gaze instinctively moves to the
    right side of the face to obtain information about their emotions and state. >Research at the University of Lincoln shows that dogs share this instinct >when meeting a human, and only when meeting a human (i.e., not other animals >or other dogs). They are the only non-primate species known to share this >instinct.]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_in_animals

    Maybe.

    but
    more likely he lies about that like all the other things he lies about. The only
    question about his lies is why he tells them,

    He tells them to escape responsibility, guilt and criticism.

    By telling them he BRINGS ON MORE responsibility, guilt and criticism.

    Take the below
    exchange between him and a police officer who recently pulled him over for >speeding, for example, and see how cleverly he escapes all three.

    Officer: May I see your driver's license?
    Jon: I don't have one. I had it suspended when I got my 5th DUI.
    Officer: May I see the owner's card for this vehicle?
    Jon: It's not my car. I stole it.
    Officer: The car is stolen?
    Jon: That's right. But come to think of it, I think I saw the owner's card
    in the glove box when I was putting my gun in there.
    Officer: There's a gun in the glove box?
    Jon: Yes sir. That's where I put it after I shot and killed the woman who >owns this car and stuffed her in the trunk.
    Officer: There's a BODY in the TRUNK?!?!?
    Jon: Yes, sir.
    Hearing this, the officer immediately called his captain. The car was
    quickly surrounded by police, and the captain approached Jon to handle the >tense situation:
    Captain: Sir, can I see your license?
    Jon: Sure. Here it is.
    It was valid.
    Captain: Who's car is this?
    Jon: It's mine, officer. Here's the owner' card.
    Jon did own the car.
    Captain: Could you slowly open your glove box so I can see if there's a gun >in it?
    Jon: Yes, sir, but there's no gun in it.
    Sure enough, there was nothing in the glove box.
    Captain: Would you mind opening your trunk? I was told you said there's a >body in it.
    Jon: No problem.
    Trunk is opened; no body.
    Captain: I don't understand it. The officer who stopped you said you told
    him you didn't have a license, stole the car, had a gun in the glovebox, and >that there was a dead body in the trunk.
    Jon: Yeah, I'll bet the liar told you I was speeding, too.

    A fun story but not something Goo could pull off.

    but it still seems clear that he
    tells them to support the eliminationist position.

    That's purely a human emotion.

    Ipse dixit. You'd say anything to trivialise the suffering you and your type >>>inflict on animals to head off criticism.

    All of you eliminationists agree with Goo about his following claims:

    "Causing the animals to exist is not "contributing to their lives."" - Goo

    "Coming into existence - that is, "getting to experience life" - is not a >>benefit for livestock animals. It is a benefit only for those who wish
    to consume products made from those animals." - Goo

    "The chickens "getting to experience life" is not *ANY* kind of good thing, >>for them, versus never existing." - Goo

    "The "experiencing" of life is morally meaningless." - Goo

    "they do not "benefit" in any way from coming into existence, versus never >>existing." - Goo

    "The emotion of expectation is *much* more than mere expectation" - Goo

    "It is not to my son's advantage to have been born versus never existing" - Goo

    "coming into existence didn't make me better off than I was before." - Goo

    "Not existing is not equivalent to "being nothing."" - Goo

    "Animals do not "benefit" in any way from coming into existence, versus >>never existing." - Goo

    "...existence, or "getting to experience life", is not a benefit compared >>with never existing." - Goo

    "it is not "better" that the animal exist, no matter
    its quality of live" - Goo

    "It is not a "benefit" to come into existence and "get to experience life" >>instead of
    never existing" - Goo

    "A life - *any* life of *any* quality - is not a "benefit" to an animal versus
    never existing" - Goo

    "Coming into existence is not a benefit compared with never existing - proved."
    - Goo

    "Existence doesn't improve welfare versus never existing" - Goo

    "according to me, existence is not a benefit - ever." - Goo

    "animals' "getting to experience life" is nonsense." - Goo

    "the moral harm caused by killing them is greater in magnitude
    than ANY benefit they might derive from "decent lives" - Goo

    "no matter how "decent" the conditions are, the deliberate killing
    of the animals erases all of it." - Goo

    ""giving them life" does NOT mitigate the wrongness of
    their deaths" - Goo

    "It is not "better" for the animals to experience a good life than
    never to live at all." - Goo

    ""Getting to experience life" has no significance." - Goo

    "Rights are not given. Rights exist." - Goo

    "It is not "good" for the animals that they exist, no matter
    how pleasant the condition of their existence." - Goo

    "It is not "good for them" to exist, no matter how pleasant
    the existence." - Goo

    "it is not "better" that the animal exist, no matter
    its quality of live" - Goo

    "It is not "better" in any moral way, and not in *any* way
    at all to the animal itself, that the animal exists." - Goo

    "Coming into existence is not a benefit to them: it does
    not make them better off than before they existed." - Goo

    "Life -per se- NEVER is a "benefit" to animals or even
    to humans . . . "getting to experience life" is not
    a benefit." - Goo

    "When considering your food choices ethically, assign
    ZERO weight to the morally empty fact that choosing to
    eat meat causes animals to be bred into existence." - Goo

    "I have examined the question at length, and feel
    there is only one reasonable conclusion: life, per se,
    is not a benefit." - Goo

    "Being born is not a benefit in any way. It can't be." - Goo

    "It is morally wrong, in an absolute sense - unjust, in other
    words - if humans kill animals they don't need to kill, i.e. not
    in self defense. There's your answer. " - Goo

    "Life "justifying" death is the
    stupidest goddamned thing you ever wrote." - Goo

    "NO livestock benefit from being farmed." - Goo

    "No farm animals benefit from farming." - Goo

    "There is nothing to "appreciate" about the livestock "getting
    to experience life" - Goo

    "the "getting to experience life" deserves NO moral
    consideration, and is given none; the deliberate killing
    of animals for use by humans DOES deserve moral
    consideration, and gets it." - Goo

    ""giving them life" does NOT mitigate the wrongness of
    their deaths" - Goo

    "Causing animals to be born and "get to experience life"
    (in Fuckwit's wretched prose) is no mitigation at all for
    killing them." - Goo

    "When considering your food choices ethically, assign
    ZERO weight to the morally empty fact that choosing to
    eat meat causes animals to be bred into existence." - Goo

    "The meaningless fact-lette that farm animals "get to
    experience life" deserves no consideration when asking
    whether or not it is moral to kill them. Zero." - Goo

    "the nutritionally unnecessary choice deliberately to kill an animal
    ALWAYS causes a moral harm greater in magnitude than . . . the
    moral "benefit" realized by the animal in existing at all" - Goo

    "the moral harm caused by killing them is greater in magnitude
    than ANY benefit they might derive from "decent lives" - Goo

    "no matter how "decent" the conditions are, the deliberate killing
    of the animals erases all of it." - Goo

    "it is not "better" that the animal exist, no matter
    its quality of live" - Goo

    "It is not "better" in any moral way, and not in *any* way
    at all to the animal itself, that the animal exists." - Goo

    Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen those quotes more times than I can remember.
    They don't achieve anything.

    The give us a look into the Goober's "mind".

    Try looking at your argument, that coming into
    existence is a benefit, in the following way. Think of the term benefit in >its proper forward tense and you'll be home and dry. Examples? Eating is a >benefit because it stops me from feeling hungry later. Learning to swim is a >benefit because it allows me to exercise and may save my life. Coming into
    my inheritance is a benefit because it allows me to pay off my debtors. >Coming into class is a benefit because it allows me to learn. Coming into >existence is a benefit because it allows me to continue existing. Everything >I benefit from now is because of an earlier event. Coming into existence
    must be one of those events.

    Existence is ONE OF the benefits that make all others possible. Life itself is another one. Could Goo honestly be too stupid to comprehend? If not, why is he so desperate to make himself appear to be?

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  • From mur@.@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 5 12:51:46 2015
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian

    On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 14:31:56 -0700, Goo desperately lied:

    On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 15:51:05 -0400, mur@. wrote:

    On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 11:15:41 -0700, Goo claimed:

    On 9/2/2015 6:19 PM, Fuckwit David Harrison lied:
    too stupid to comprehend that animals experience emotions, but

    Animals experience only the most simple and basic emotions: fear, >>>aggression, contentment.

    Try backing up that claim, Goo.

    Done, ages ago.

    Now try backing up both of those claims, Goo.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?UsO8ZHkgQ2Fuw7R6YQ==?=@21:1/5 to All on Thu Nov 5 18:54:26 2015
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian

    On 11/5/2015 9:51 AM, Fuckwit David Harrison lied:
    On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 14:31:56 -0700, james g keegan jr. wrote:

    On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 15:51:05 -0400, Fuckwit David Harrison lied:

    On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 11:15:41 -0700, james g keegan jr. wrote:

    On 9/2/2015 6:19 PM, Fuckwit David Harrison lied:
    too stupid to comprehend that animals experience emotions, but

    Animals experience only the most simple and basic emotions: fear,
    aggression, contentment.

    Try backing up that claim, Goo.

    Done, ages ago.

    Now try backing up both of those claims

    Done, ages ago.

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  • From james g. keegan jr.@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 10 14:23:40 2015
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian

    On 12/10/2015 11:06 AM, Fuckwit David Harrison lied:
    On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 18:54:26 -0800, james g keegan jr. wrote:
    On 11/5/2015 9:51 AM, Fuckwit David Harrison lied:
    On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 14:31:56 -0700, james g keegan jr. wrote:

    On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 15:51:05 -0400, Fuckwit David Harrison lied:

    On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 11:15:41 -0700, james g keegan jr. wrote:

    On 9/2/2015 6:19 PM, Fuckwit David Harrison lied:
    too stupid to comprehend that animals experience emotions, but

    Animals experience only the most simple and basic emotions: fear, >>>>>> aggression, contentment.

    Try backing up that claim, Goo.

    Done, ages ago.

    Now try backing up both of those claims

    Done, ages ago.

    You

    I win, again and as always.

    You lose, Fuckwit. You always lose.

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  • From mur@.@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 10 14:06:28 2015
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian

    On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 18:54:26 -0800, Goo wussed horribly:

    On Thu, 05 Nov 2015 12:51:46 -0500, mur@. wrote:

    On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 14:31:56 -0700, Goo desperately lied:

    On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 15:51:05 -0400, mur@. wrote:

    On Thu, 3 Sep 2015 11:15:41 -0700, Goo claimed:

    On 9/2/2015 6:19 PM, Fuckwit David Harrison lied:
    too stupid to comprehend that animals experience emotions, but

    Animals experience only the most simple and basic emotions: fear, >>>>>aggression, contentment.

    Try backing up that claim, Goo.

    Done, ages ago.

    Now try backing up both of those claims, Goo.

    D

    You lose again just as you have consistently done for ages, Goo.

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  • From Rudy Canoza@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 11 17:33:35 2016
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian

    Regret

    Non-human animals do not experience regret. Regret is predicated on an
    ability to recognize that actions have future consequences, and that one
    course of action might lead to an inferior outcome from what might have obtained if one had taken a different action. It is further predicated
    on the awareness that consequences often cannot be undone, and that once
    a particular path is not chosen, the path is closed off for good.
    Finally, in the case of regret over the effect one's actions have had on others, animals have no sense at all of the effects their actions have
    on others, particular on the emotional feelings of others.

    Animals do not experience regret.

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  • From Rudy Canoza@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 20 08:01:11 2016
    XPost: alt.animals.ethics.vegetarian

    God, how I love this series! It's great.


    Dignity

    Animals do not experience the emotion of dignity.

    A friend shared a picture someone else had posted on Facebook, and I
    tracked it back to its original site. It's here:

    http://tinyurl.com/gte8u3h

    It's some kind of scruffy little dog that has been bathed but not dried.
    The dog looks completely undignified - in fact, it's almost
    unrecognizable as a dog. If it had a sense of dignity - which it does
    not - it would be completely humiliated (humility - another emotion
    animals lack) at being portrayed to the world in this way.

    Dogs and other animals do not have a sense of dignity (or humility) -
    those are purely human emotions.

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