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Lions have no concept of morality either. We should care about unnecessary suffering because we can.

• coldtea 7y ago
  >We should care about unnecessary suffering because we can. "We should because we can"? There are many things that we "can" do that we better not do. There's no automatic logical deduction from "we can" to "so we should".
  • dao- 7y ago
    Avoiding unnecessary suffering is sometimes used as the basis for whole ethics systems. It's inherently good and doesn't need to be deduced from anything.
    • coldtea 7y ago
      Well, who calls what's "unnecessary"? Killing animals for their meat is not like torturing animals for no reason (which indeed would be unnecessary). And how steep would the slope be? E.g. what about killing rodents and house pests?