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To: haqihana who wrote (119673)	6/12/2005 6:19:48 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793801

I don't think anyone should beat anyone else up over the suggestion that a body is meat. That's just such an odd concept to me. A body rots like meat. It burns like meat. It used to be a person, but once it is dead it is pretty much meat. Obviously you can argue it is more- but science is on my side, since it behaves chemically like any other meat, and if I test it, it will test like any other meat. I'm not sure I would say I am fond of calling bodies meat, any more than I am fond of calling trees trees. It just seems to be the way things are. I can't understand getting upset with someone for seeing the world the way they see it. But there you are, I'm different. I don't want anyone to beat you up because you don't think a body is meat. I hope no one ever would, and I wouldn't suggest any group of people would, or ought to, or that they would be at all justified in doing so.

To: haqihana who wrote (119673)	6/12/2005 10:54:20 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793801

I wanted to say thank you for not being personal. It was interesting to hear your point of view, even though it was different from my own. I do hope you are wrong about marines beating people up, but aside from that I found your comments interesting, and I hope you did not think I was insulting you in any way, or trying to be outrageous. I simply posted ideas of mine, that are common to my family. I am glad you shared your ideas with me. (and I did not want you to think what I wrote about personal attacks applied at all to you, because it didn't, but SI can be confusing, and I wanted to be very plain on that. Thanks again for the conversation.)