X-Message-Number: 25729 From: Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 05:55:54 EST Subject: Re: CryoNet #25717 Dog suspended at CI From: "David Verbeke" <> > You would try to give the animal a sort of gift it cannot even > comprehend, because it is simply not aware of such a thing as being and > not-being. The animal is just a collection of intentional systems who lack > the interaction that can come to an understanding of the end of life, ... as > > humans can. I don't say it should be denied, there's no wrong doing in > suspending animals. I just think it's the reflection of human > knowledgde/fear on a creature that is totally different and is totally > unaware of such knowledge/fear. > Well, how many dogs, cats, and so on have you interviewed on that subject ? If you put nearly any animal in a life treatening situation, it will try to escape it. If this is not an experimental an observational proof that it value its life and make a difference between life and non-life, what is it ? The real difference between us and animals is that we have the possibility to gain a small probablity to escape definitive death by using cryonics. Animals can't chose that option, but we can give it to them. Yvan Bozzonetti. Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25729