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You want to treat something with respect and then kill it to eat it? What exactly is the point?

falcor84 8y ago
These are two separate things. Hunters for example are often very respective of the animals they track. And as another example, when a persom is sentenced to death, we still try to treat them with respect throughout the process.
grecy 8y ago
As a thought experiment, let us imagine you have been sentenced to death (that still happens in the USA, right?) 5 years from now, you will be killed. Would you rather spend those 5 years jammed into a concrete cell with thousands of other inmates, unable to move, standing in your own feces, never to see the sun and only eating corn? Or would you rather have a bed, running water, proper meals, be allowed outside in the sunshine for some hours a day and even get some exercise? I think it's pretty clear which one you prefer, and we should treat non-human animals the same way. They're alive, lets treat them with some respect. (That applies to death row inmates, regular citizens and animals equally)
- matz1 8y ago
  Sure I don't want to be treated like that, but animal well being? I don't care. This just mean I care more than my own well being compare to animal well being and I don't have problem with that.
  - iN7h33nD 8y ago
    The same logic was applied to slavery, and is still applied with racism. You believe that you are better than something or someone else. Who cares what happens to them, they are not a real living thing like me...
    - matz1 8y ago
      Yes, but I believe there always someone who care what happen to them, its just might not be me.
AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
I may not agree with the concept of killing animals for food outside of survival necessity, but one must recognize that all life ends in death one way or another. Things do not have less value simply because they are impermanent. The quality of an animal's life is valuable regardless of how it ends, just as ours are.
- throwaway8879 8y ago
  It's only valuable because you give it value. I don't.
  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
    Your question was: >You want to treat something with respect and then kill it to eat it? What exactly is the point? I don't see how your values have any relevance on the answer to that question.

These are two separate things. Hunters for example are often very respective of the animals they track. And as another example, when a persom is sentenced to death, we still try to treat them with respect throughout the process.

grecy 8y ago

As a thought experiment, let us imagine you have been sentenced to death (that still happens in the USA, right?) 5 years from now, you will be killed. Would you rather spend those 5 years jammed into a concrete cell with thousands of other inmates, unable to move, standing in your own feces, never to see the sun and only eating corn? Or would you rather have a bed, running water, proper meals, be allowed outside in the sunshine for some hours a day and even get some exercise? I think it's pretty clear which one you prefer, and we should treat non-human animals the same way. They're alive, lets treat them with some respect. (That applies to death row inmates, regular citizens and animals equally)

matz1 8y ago
Sure I don't want to be treated like that, but animal well being? I don't care. This just mean I care more than my own well being compare to animal well being and I don't have problem with that.
- iN7h33nD 8y ago
  The same logic was applied to slavery, and is still applied with racism. You believe that you are better than something or someone else. Who cares what happens to them, they are not a real living thing like me...
  - matz1 8y ago
    Yes, but I believe there always someone who care what happen to them, its just might not be me.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago

I may not agree with the concept of killing animals for food outside of survival necessity, but one must recognize that all life ends in death one way or another. Things do not have less value simply because they are impermanent. The quality of an animal's life is valuable regardless of how it ends, just as ours are.

throwaway8879 8y ago
It's only valuable because you give it value. I don't.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 8y ago
  Your question was: >You want to treat something with respect and then kill it to eat it? What exactly is the point? I don't see how your values have any relevance on the answer to that question.