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combine the eating of other animals, a rational brain and a mind at peace, you need some amount of self deception i'm at peace with killing animals for food. i
by xj9 9y ago
combine the eating of other animals, a rational brain and a mind at peace, you need some amount of self deception
i'm at peace with killing animals for food. i know that they feel pain, but life is pain in general. maybe i'm a terrible person or something, but a good bbq is def worth more than the life of a pig or a cow.
- mortenjorck 9y agoIn my worldview, it is simply an immutable law of nature that more complex genera prey upon less complex ones. But as we are complex enough to empathize, we also have the moral responsibility to make the best of our predatory nature, whether that means minimizing the suffering of our prey, or minimizing the ecological impact of our predation.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 9y agoAs long as you accept then that there is no moral problem with some superior species coming along and and deciding the same about you, at least your backwards philosophy will be consistent.
- xj9 9y agooh yeah, totally fine! if i can't stop them, "moral superiority" isn't going to protect me anyway ;)
- gadders 9y agoThe thing is though, animals die anyway. And it's not like they die peacefully in their sleep, either. They mostly either get injured or old and starve to death, or get eaten by predators.
- nileshtrivedi 9y agoHumans die anyway too. ;)
- InitialLastName 9y agoThat's a false equivalence though; if you look into many vegetarians' justifications for their diet it often isn't the killing or eating of animals that they find objectionable as much as the intentional process of breeding and raising animals for food. I know many "vegetarians" (for want of a better word) who will willingly eat hunted or fished food, but avoid industrial meat.