>  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 
uperficially
 >  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 
r
 >  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 
thers
 >  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 
ngry--what?
 > Less likely to survive, and less likely to be lead
 > pigs.
Well, you might have a point there--if they were wild pigs.
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