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The Cosmic Hum
Joined: 09 May 2003
Location: Sonic Space
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 Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 12:14 am Post subject: |
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| Rteacher wrote: |
A truly pragmatic approach that would be best for the environment would be to eat only vegetarians.
This more spiritual approach was adopted by Saint Francis a sissy. |
My apologies Rteacher...all in good fun.  |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2013 6:03 am Post subject: |
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| Fox wrote: |
| Rteacher wrote: |
| A truly pragmatic approach ... would be to eat only vegetarian food |
That's not pragmatic. In fact, it's the outright opposite of pragmatism. A pragmatic approach would be moderating our meat consumption and raising animals under more humane conditions. |
Well, I would term that a moderate approach. I think I used pragmatic in the sense of being most useful or effective. Actually the original Latin word pragmaticus meant "being skilled in law or business" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pragmatic
So, in a radically pragmatic approach, laws may need to be changed to in effect outlaw slaughterhouses and factory-farms, greatly decreasing the unnecessary killing of animals.. |
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