Above, I asked you to comment on the point of telling someone to prove a negative. I am interested in you take on that in regards to science and debate.
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Quote by: Captain Chaos  Why do you apply to animals the same concerns that you apply to yourself? |
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reason tells me suffering is a bad state to be in and that no one wants to be the target of a force that exerts it. My empathy, which you are trying to get me declare, rests on the reasoning I know that suffering is a bad state. You may want to go up and review what I said about Animal Welfarists and Animal Rightists. Animal Rightists use reason non-prejudicialy. At one time, when I was an AWist, empathy is what anchored my beliefs on being kind to animals. Becoming an ARist changed what anchors my belief from that to reason -- hence no special refuge in reason for considering the interests of dogs and cute little kittens any differently from pigs or chickens.