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, Mavreela <nec.lists@m...> wrote:

>

> >The only real guide-line I can go

> >by is,anything that gives life and enhances non-destructive life-

> >forms can be considered right (good) and anything that harms non-

> >destructive life forms can be considered wrong (bad).

>

> What is the difference between a destructive and non-destructive

life

> form? If (as you have stated) that the animals created by God

(including

> humans) are non-destructive then can there be a destructive life

form?

>

> And to go way off topic what about noise pollution?

>

> If I moved next door to you and played my stereo at full volume at

3AM

> without any consideration for you, most people would say that I'm

doing

> wrong. To use the animal rights philosophers I have already

mentioned as

> examples, Singer would say that the benefit to me from loud music

is

> outweighed by the loss of sleep that everyone else would

experience. Regan

> on the other hand would say that you have the right to peace and

quiet and

> that I am infringing on your rights. The point is that right and

wrong is

> much more than just the issue of life and death. Even so (and I

don't want

> to dig up past discussions) what about euthanasia or suicide?

Technically

> they harm non-destructive life forms but at the same time you also

cause

> harm by their prohibition.

>

> And I'll preempt any biblical argument against suicide by pointing

you to

> the following essays, both of which argue that the position of the

church

> is anti-christian:

>

> 'On Suicide' by Arthur Schopenhauer (1851) and can be read at

>

http://www.concentric.net/~Wkiernan/text/Schopenhauer_On_Suicide_1.htm

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>

> Quote: " As far as I know, none but the votaries of monotheistic,

that is to

> say, Jewish religions, look upon suicide as a crime. This is all

the more

> striking, inasmuch as neither in the Old or in the New Testament is

there

> to be found any prohibition or positive disapproval of it "

>

> 'On Suicide' by David Hume (1783) and can be read at

> http://www.csulb.edu/~jvancamp/452_r5.html

>

> Quote: " Were the disposal of human life so much reserved as the

peculiar

> province of the Almighty, that it were an encroachment on his

right, for

> men to dispose of their own lives; it would be equally criminal to

act for

> the preservation of life as for its destruction. If I turn aside a

stone

> which is falling upon my head, I disturb the course of nature, and

I invade

> the peculiar province of the Almighty, by lengthening out my life

beyond

> the period which by the general laws of matter and motion he had

assigned it. "

>

> Michael

 

 

<Can't cover all your points,

 

< I take the view if someone plays loud music next door to me,

knowing they will disturb me they would be very selfish because if

they wanted to play loud music they could sound proof their place or

hire a hall ,

 

<I think if we humans did our best to avoid harming any living

creature as much as possible, especially the larger one as they are

at least easier to see and easier to avoid harming, all the other

problems regarding allowing non-detructive life forms to exist might,

more easierly, It is possible that detructive life forms might only

come into existence to counteract other detructive life forms,eg;if

humans continue to kill animals it is going against a non- detructive

way of living,therefore nature or God has in existence a force

(bacteria- viruses') that keep us from progressing and living as we

should,

< what I saying is maybe certain life forms only come into existence

as a reaction to how other life forms behave!

 

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