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"protected by ethics." Who's ethics? The law had slaves at 3/5ths a person at one point. Generally, a way not to be an ass, is to avoid taking life unecessaril
by goldenkey 11y ago
"protected by ethics." Who's ethics? The law had slaves at 3/5ths a person at one point.
Generally, a way not to be an ass, is to avoid taking life unecessarily. These art pieces are cool but I'm pretty sure no comprehensive set of ethics supports taking life for sake of entertainment or "coolness."
I find it disgusting.
- sjwright 11y agoYou can buy bug spray in the supermarket, because chemically torturing and murdering flies is acceptable. Where is the outrage?
- RaleyField 11y agoNobody is doing art exhibits with bug spray nor are they running around nature spraying nests for no good reason. If pouring aluminum was done for science in a limited number of times then that's acceptable, but doing it just to produce cheap artifacts of dubious artistic value is mildly obscene.
- yk 11y ago> Who's ethics? Mine, I am not speaking for some higher power. > Generally, a way not to be an ass, is to avoid taking life unecessarily. And here is the problem with your argument, this art form takes lives necessarily. So the question is, if we are better off without a few ant colonies or without an entire art form.
- goldenkey 11y agoPerhaps one day killing will be seen as "getting one's hands dirty" and unecessarily organic in an otherwise square, cold, sterile, sharply edged world. Killing will not stop for morals but rather for reasons of seperation. Meals will be perfectly produced homogenous mixtures of 3d printed amino acids, vitamins, and sacchatides. Yeah.. I dont have much faith in the ability for people to trade pleasures for lives.