[geeks] Booze and Religion

[doctor obnox son of a bitch]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 01:27:36PM -0500, Kurt Mosiejczuk had the audacity to opine:
> On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> 
> > (Hey, as far as I'm concerned, Buddhists can drink.  Just not to excess,
> > which is fine by me. If anyone cares, I also eat meat.  I just take the
> > time to appreciate the animal (or plant) that died to feed me.)
> 
> 
> I find this really refreshing.  Someone who actually connects that the
> plant has to die for you to eat it.
> 
> I don't mind vegetarians who are in it for the health reasons, but the
> ones who are all moralistic about it just annoy me.  Hello, something
> still had to die for you to eat, it just didn't scream.
> 
> Reminds me of the time I had a vegetarian roommate.  She bought a
> vegetable peeler.  I held it up in checkout and said "Kindof makes a
> stun hammer look humane, don't it?".  She almost cried.
> 

"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian because I
hate plants" 
		--A. Whitney Brown
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Eric J. Gustafson                                   drobnox at visi.com