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This comment would suggest you would be equally OK with eating a human. Is that the case?
by antcas 8y ago
This comment would suggest you would be equally OK with eating a human. Is that the case?
- anoncoward111 8y agoIt sounds like he is merely paying lip service and doublespeak to ethics, rather than actuakly behaving as if he feels their lives are equal. Put a chicken and a human in front of him. Tell him he has to slaughter whichever one he wants for dinner. His real preference will be exposed. I would rather starve.
- johnchristopher 8y agoYou changed the proposition from `eating chicken` to `killing chicken`.
- anoncoward111 8y agoAs if these propositions aren't directly linked. Ok, imagine theres a plate of cooked chicken breast next to a plate of grilled human forearm. Suddenly, you would say, "yes these two pieces of meat are both equally delicious!"
- johnchristopher 8y ago> Suddenly, you would say, "yes these two pieces of meat are both equally delicious!" What ? I don't put values on things based on how they taste. That's why I'd pick up the breast chicken. I still think the chicken lives matter as much as human. I am sad we are causing them unnecessary sufferings (most of the time) but I am still going to eat them over a humane forearm (unless I am trapped in the Andes after a plane crash or something).
- anoncoward111 8y agoIn a purely ethical world, the correct answer is to eat neither the chicken breast nor the human forearm if you value both lives equally and believe that neither organism should ever been slaughtered and eaten.
- johnchristopher 8y agoI don't live in a purely ethical world. I insist: I value both lives and yet I eat chicken. Deal with it.
- johnchristopher 8y agoNo. The sad thing of life is that I think all lives have the same value but it doesn't prevent me from eating chicken. It's not what I do to a thing that express the value I put in it, it's what I think of it. However, my cultural upbringing (and eating habits) favors eating chicken over dead humans. This is conditioning. And an easy position to maintain, I am aware of it but I won't pretend chicken lives have less value than human lives because I eat chicken.