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A lion wouldn't struggle with eating you if given the option, why would you waste time returning the favor? I get making a concerted effort to make sure animal
by tw04 10y ago
A lion wouldn't struggle with eating you if given the option, why would you waste time returning the favor? I get making a concerted effort to make sure animals don't suffer in the process of becoming food as much as humanly possible, but refusing to eat other animals when you're an apex predator is... silly. For starters, you may quickly find yourself no longer apex. Do you enjoy spending time outdoors without fearing for your life?
- rosser 10y agoLions don't have prefrontal cortices. Humans aren't obligate carnivores. Yes, we're omnivores, but we have a choice to engage more ethically with the animals we choose to put on our plates. To point to animals that have to kill other animals or they will die as normative for our behavior is fatuously specious.
- greglindahl 10y agoA good example of how to be off-putting.
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- vacri 10y agoHumans generally don't eat apex predators. Herbivores and omnivores are our preferred dietary targets. And given how much we've made our stamp on the world, the idea that we'd lose 'apex predator' status is nonsensical.
- Udik 10y agoThe essence of modern ethics is not to do to others what they'd do to you - it's not doing to others what you wouldn't want to be done to you. Unfortunately, I see this kind of reasoning applied often also to relations among peoples: "in their country they wouldn't allow you to, so ..." and even "if it were for them, they'd kill us, so...". This is wrong.