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> weird people who doesn’t like to eat inhumanly raised animal products It really shouldn’t be weird. It should be the default. Almost No one would purposely h
by mrfusion 7y ago
> weird people who doesn’t like to eat inhumanly raised animal products
It really shouldn’t be weird. It should be the default. Almost No one would purposely harm an intelligent animal yet it’s to norm to support industries that do.
- kodablah 7y agoThe weird part might be in the rest of the quoted sentence where they don't care what other people eat.
- ssully 7y agoI am not sure if that is even weird tbh. Maybe I am an outlier, but I know a lot of vegetarians and can't think of a single time where they have commented about someone eating meat.
- Konnstann 7y agoI don't think vegetarians are usually the ones commenting, there's a reason vegans get a lot of flak on the internet. I've also never heard vegetarians commenting on anyone's dietary choices.
- bart_spoon 7y ago> Almost No one would purposely harm an intelligent animal Except for the fact that human beings have been purposely harming intelligent animals for food for millenia.
- gruez 7y ago>Almost No one would purposely harm an intelligent animal Thought experiment: is it ethical to eat animals that have been genetically engineered to be braindead?
- yifanl 7y agoI'm not sure if this is a useful thought experiment.
- gruez 7y agoWhy not? Animal welfare is a primary reason why some people don't eat meat. Making them braindead should alleviate the concern for those people, but I have a feeling that the same people would be against it.
- rramdin 7y agoIs it ethical to genetically engineer animals (e.g. people) to be braindead?
- Lukeas14 7y agoI think genetically engineering animals to be braindead is itself the unethical action. If we're willing to sacrifice efficiency we could emulate what animals go through in the wild. They live a life full of socializing and emotions and then slaughtered for meat at the end.
- satyrnein 7y agoI've known some (otherwise) vegetarians that ate bivalves, kinds of the same thing.
- wahern 7y agoUnfortunately, there are plenty of people who eat chimpanzees and gorillas as bushmeat, even while appreciating their intelligence. There's no contradiction there. Humans are predators--don't underestimate our capacity to dissociate and follow our predator instincts. In fact, forget the whole predator angle--don't underestimate our capacity to dissociate. That ability isn't inherently bad; it's one of the things that makes us human, and is a prerequisite for making choices in the first place.