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You said you’re not a vegan, so to be clear your okay with factory farms crushing pigs to death but minimally invasive surgery on monkeys so they can play pong
by lwansbrough 6y ago
You said you’re not a vegan, so to be clear your okay with factory farms crushing pigs to death but minimally invasive surgery on monkeys so they can play pong is too far? I don’t care about your stance on animal consumption particularly, but don’t you find that a little hypocritical?
- 55555 6y agoThey crush pigs to death? What? Nothing would surprise me at this point, but I couldnt find a citation for that at first glance.
- DocTomoe 6y agoOP might be referring to pigs crushing each other to death because of overcrowding in badly-run farms and during transportation. Farmers don't throw pigs in trash compactors (and why would they? Non-compacted pigs is how they do earn their money.)
- antoinexp 6y agoIs your first statement not a kind of strawman argument? ( https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/strawman ) I mean, I am not vegan too but it doesn't mean I am ok with pigs crushed to death anyway. I think I see the point that you want to make though: somehow it should feel as if this minimal surgery ought to be "logically" more morally acceptable than killing animals to eat them. But don't you think morality could be just the name of a preference function deeply encoded in each individual brain and which doesn't require to be "rationally tuned"? (So that it can lead to weird irrational situations as in, I am ok with eating meat but I feel uncomfortable at the idea of killing animals)
- quilombodigital 6y agoYep, I agree this sounds hypocritical,but everybody has different "lines" to cross. I guess mine is how close they are to humans. (98%), and I also differentiate "food" from "experiment".