If ST respected new life; how about old? Cows, chickens, fish?
worc...@orclev.com
precious, yadda yadda yadda, from a microbe to a nanobot to a
hologram.
So was everyone a vegan? How could you look into the face of an
animal and eat its face off and then babble on about how intelligent
some fungus was deserving respect, protection, and the Prime
Directive?
And at what cost? Would you be so Buddhist that you would let your
entire civilization die to save a self-aware hologram?
Star Trek: BAD Religion. :-)
Graeme
explains that they can synthesize meat in their replicators, and so no
longer need to "enslave" animals for meat. I don't see a big moral
issue with eating replicated meat, but since they were looking down on
a species that didn't have that option, it came off as very Marie-
Antoinette-ish.
Graeme
for a stray reference here and there (All Our Yesterdays?) about Spock
not eating meat, and they were pretty vague about the reason. Slaver
Weapon mentioned it too, if you want to get into the animated series.
It wasn't until TNG that Trek gave in to full-blown self
congratulation.
P-Dub
I think you have too much time on your hands.
Take $5, go to the store, and buy a clue.
P-Dub: Queen to Kings Level 1
Anim8rFSK
<dcc486b0-3f47-444a...@j8g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>,
Graeme <graem...@aol.com> wrote:
> Well, in one early TNG episode, Troi or Riker self-righteously
> explains that they can synthesize meat in their replicators, and so no
> longer need to "enslave" animals for meat. I don't see a big moral
> issue with eating replicated meat
See Larry Niven's "Assimilating Our Culture, That's What They're Doing"
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