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I agree with you. Just as bad is what's known as Bile Bears. Humanity has a ways to go with treatment of sentient creatures. Intelligence or species is not the
by goldenkey 10y ago
I agree with you. Just as bad is what's known as Bile Bears. Humanity has a ways to go with treatment of sentient creatures. Intelligence or species is not the predicate with which we should dole out misery. Ability to feel pain is the only thing that matters. And far too many of the creatures we put through screaming existences are too close to our own hearts...conscious feelers. That's all we really are beneath it all. Do onto others as you desire onto yourself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bile_bear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bile_bear
- rexicus 10y agoI don't think it's even close ethically to torturing a bear. You know people boil crabs alive all the time, right?
- libeclipse 10y agoI don't think this is a particularly good point to make. You're saying that since X happened and since X is worse than Y, we shouldn't care about Y. There's been school shootings so single murders don't matter? There were so many more deaths in world war two than in world war one, so WWI doesn't matter? And this is ignoring the fact that your "worse" claim was based on your own personal ethics which is, at best, subjective.
- chiliap2 10y agoPeople have a finite amount of time and energy. How do you choose what to prioritize if not by saying that some things are worse than others? They didn't say that some things don't matter, just that it doesn't come close ethically.
- walls 10y agoIt's not quite the same thing, horseshoe blood actually has a real medical purpose.