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To: cosmicforce who wrote (7804)	3/7/2001 12:48:15 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) of 82486

I liked the challenge so much, I'll take it anyway. Dear Alien Species, I've been an inhabitant of this small isolated planet for 43 years. I live with a bunch of others of my kind and work in a professional capacity whereby I seek to reduce suffering. In my personal life, I try not to eat anything or harm anything without due consideration of its feelings. The evolution of our planet has put me in the awkward position that I must feed on other living things. I feel really bad about this but because I'm endowed with a brain and have compassion, I try to feed off those that will mind it the least. I would argue that the species I eat have evolved to deal with predation. They offer their seeds and fruits for consumption, knowing that the animals and other things that eat them (an inevitability on our planet) and these things will spread their seed. It is my belief that I'm in a comensal relationship with the things I eat. These food crops benefit because they get to be wider spread. We also raise animals. I don't eat them, but eat products produced by them that don't appear to produce great harm or suffering in these animals. I believe this is the best I can do under my current circumstances, but if you can provide a less harmful way to sustain myself I would try to embrace it. The small effect that I do make, despite my best efforts, comes about largely by accident and not intentional neglect or through a callousness. I've always maintained that it is better to eat as low on the food chain as possible for moral reasons. In closing, I'd like to remind you that almost certainly your kind was itself unevolved at some time and limited by the circumstances under which you were raised. I hope my good faith effort to make a difference here will make a difference to you and that my pleas for leniency will be heard. I think I can offer you more as a comrade or pet, than as part of this wonderful buffet you have before you. Please extend this courtesy to the rest of our kind and as many of my fellow creatures as you can. Thank you in advance for your consideration.

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