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Capitalism Is Very Far From A Perfect System, But So Far We Have Yet To Find Anything That Clearly Does A Better Job Of Meeting Human Needs Than A Regulated Capitalist Economy Coupled With A Welfare And Health Care System That Meets The Basic Needs Of Those Who Do Not Thrive In The Capitalist Economy. If We Ever Do Find A Better System, I'll Be Happy To Call Myself An Anti-capitalist.

Science Does Not Stand Still, And Neither Does Philosophy, Although The Latter Has A Tendency To Walk In Circles.

It Is A Mistake To Assume That The Law Should Always Enforce Morality.

I Am Not Saying That Factory Farming Is The Same As The Holocaust Or The Slave Trade, But It's Clear That There Is An Immense Amount Of Suffering In It, And Just As We Think That The Nazis Were Wrong To Ignore The Suffering Of Their Victims, So We Are Wrong To Ignore The Sufferings Of Our Victims.

With The Eventual Acceptance Of Darwin's Theory We Reach A Modern Understanding Of Nature, One Which Has Since Then Changed In Detail Rather Than In Fundamentals. Only Those Who Prefer Religious Faith To Beliefs Based On Reasoning And Evidence Can Still Maintain That The Human Species Is The Special Darling Of The Entire Universe, Or That Other Animals Were Created To Provide Us With Food, Or That We Have Divine Authority Over Them, And Divine Permission To Kill Them.