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I like to eat chicken, beefs, and porks for no other reason than it's tasty food. Does that make me a bad person?
by kiba 6y ago
I like to eat chicken, beefs, and porks for no other reason than it's tasty food.
Does that make me a bad person?
- i_haz_rabies 6y agoAre you aware of the impact it has, consider that impact to be negative in a moral sense, but make no changes to your behaviour?
- bambax 6y agoI don't decide who's good or bad, and I'm not your mother. You should form your own opinion about yourself.
- munificent 6y agoAccording to the chicken, cow, and pig, yes. It's up to you to determine how much their opinion informs your own.
- dsubburam 6y agoAnother way to reframe this is to ask if this is a free action, rather than a good or bad one. Free as in free from animal passions that compel one to act in a pseudo-deterministic way ("I am hungry so I eat", "I am scared so I run"), and instead according to higher-order reason and principle only humans (so far) have access to. So, if we choose meat for a meal in an automatic way because our tongue asks for it, it might be an unfree choice. But if we do so after some consideration, including factors beyond our bodily impulses, it could be seen as a choice made by a free person. This my take/interpretation of Immanuel Kant's transcendental freedom[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative#Freedom_and_autonomy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_imperative#Freedom...