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Why is denying ourselves a psychological shield a good idea?

• opportune 8y ago
  Typically because it helps you make decisions you morally disagree with by pretending the bad parts don’t exist. You can’t decide whether you are morally ok with how a product is produced without seeing how it’s produced: this applies to more than just food, e.g. sweatshops
• yesenadam 8y ago
  It's not easy to answer this macabre question. To many people, it's more important not to slaughter animals like that, than that people feel ok about the ugly reality. To people who think human lives aren't the only ones that have some value, this question is grotesque. To me, at least - 'Why is feeling bad about needlessly slaughtering lambs a good idea?'.. I guess there's a utilitarian argument for taking a pill so we'd never feel bad about anything, if we could, though I'm not sure if we'd still be recognizably human. Well, maybe psychopaths are like that.