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Firstly: just because something behaves in a way doesn't mean we should do it too, or not. It's not relevant to the decision making process, as we are not eatin
by sametmax 11y ago
Firstly: just because something behaves in a way doesn't mean we should do it too, or not. It's not relevant to the decision making process, as we are not eating them for what they do, but for what they bring to us. We are intelligent creatures capables of decisions based on something else than instincts, and this should be one of them.
Secondly: our technology allow us a variety of diets and ways of life that the animal primitive way of living does not.
This does not mean you should be vegetarian. I am, and I would certainly not enforce it on anybody. But if you take the decision to be veggie or not, it should be from the perspective of a modern, educated human in the context of our science and society.
- rosser 11y agojust because something behaves in a way doesn't mean we should do it too, or not. Oh, come on. The behavior of a hyena should totally be taken as normative for humans.
- phantarch 11y agoI'd challenge that buried beneath the sarcasm, there's a bit of truth in saying that humans are more animalistic than we like to admit. Although we have the advantage of being able to reason about our more basic instincts and drives doesn't mean they aren't there. All too often people fall into the trap of viewing humans as distinctly separate from all other animals and not simply at one end of a continuum of development.