| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (castille,)
But if you eat a cheeseburger, you're disregarding the rights of a cow.
What about bread? Disregarding the rights of wheat. (Plants have feelings you know)
So therefor, every action we do is greed. Walk down the street? What about preserving the poor pavement? If every man in the world walked down the same street they'll eventually break the pavement, destroying the hard work of whoever made that pavement!
To avoid greed....sit in the middle of the forest and starve to death.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
ROFL!!!
rights of a cow? rights of wheat? feelings = rights?
Where do you get this stuff?
Rights are nothing more than an agreement between 'people' as to how to act. They are no different then cultural/religious rules or governmental laws. They are/were created to effect a better environment for all concerned. To have a 'right' a HUMAN (or other being capable of rational thought) must agree to reciprocate that 'right' onto others: I cannot claim a 'Right to Live' if I do not respect the same right in others (ie: committ murder).
A cow has no 'rights' as we understand them, perhaps he has 'cow rights' with respect to other cows, but he does not understand and thereby cannot reciprocate the right back to humans. The same applies to wheat... grass... insects... rocks... meteors... viruses...
Back to the Thread:
Agree totally with jhFenton here - the wishy washy dictionary definition is too vague and leaves too much room for interpretation: 'no more than is needed' is poor balderdash and smacks of communistic sentiments...
michael
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