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Dear Phil Osifers:-
A ;long time ago, Plato described "pleasure" as the absence of "pain".
He further surmised from that, the ultimate pleasure must be death. Therefore,
if you are a Platonist, killing those things inside shells is an act of
granting happiness.
Of course, if you are not a Platonist-----never mind.
Art
Patty Jansen wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I though Alfonso put that very well.
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> I think also the question 'do shells have feelings?' a bit irrelevant,
> since we cannot ask them; well, we may try, but the chance of getting an
> answer is very slim.
>
> I think rather than whether or not shells have feelings, to us as humans
> the question that matters is whether or not we think it is morally
> justified to kill them.
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> I might add that even if we think the answer to the above question is no,
> by driving our cars, using paper, and simply by living, we kill them anyway
>
> I am probably too down-to-earth to be a good philosopher
>
> Patty
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