BM>  >    I remain firm in the believe that animals are
 BM>  > animals, and lack the needed
 BM>  > sentience to exhibit cruelty, which includes malice.
 BM> OK, try this for size:  I saw a litter of pigs once--all superficially 
 BM> identical except for two:  a normal-sized piglet with a prominent 
 BM> abdominal hernia, and a runt.  A couple of the other piglets butted or 
 BM> otherwise harassed the runt, and I saw one piglet repeatedly butting the 
 BM> hernia of the afflicted one. Obviously, all or even most of the others 
 BM> did not exhibit this behavior toward the different ones, or neither 
would 
 BM> have lived to the age it already had. Therefore, the nonagressive 
piglets 
 BM> were what--less piglike, stupider, smarter, more tolerant, kinder, less 
 BM> observant, got to the feed trough first and so were less hungry--what?
Less likely to survive, and less likely to be lead pigs.
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