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But then there would be no cows.
by whiddershins 9y ago
But then there would be no cows.
- csallen 9y agoDefine "no cows". There are plenty of animals we don't eat that continue to exist.
- samcal 9y agoRight, but those animals aren't as naturally helpless as a domesticated cow.
- orange_fritter 9y agoI think it was just a joke to rile up the vegans.
- whiddershins 9y agoCows don't really exist in the wild. I guess we could have some in zoos but we mostly keep animals around that have a purpose for us. One could make the argument that evolutionarily speaking, being domesticated (usually then eaten) by humans is the most reliable survival strategy for any species.
- txru 9y agoI'm not making a judgement one way or the other in this case, but 'cruelty in creation' is something that may need to be considered more in the coming years. Pugs are my favorite example-- always in respiratory distress, abnormally short life spans, and unable to normally reproduce. It isn't some kindness that we create pugs the way we do-- just a gap in traditional morals. We may confront this more should we find we've created an intelligence with the capacity for emotions.