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OK, but hypothetically, assume it does become immoral, and then illegal. If you eat a burger now, with lab-grown meat not really available, are you behaving im
by marcus_holmes 5y ago
OK, but hypothetically, assume it does become immoral, and then illegal.
If you eat a burger now, with lab-grown meat not really available, are you behaving immorally?
If you eat an animal in (say) 10 years' time, when lab-grown meat is readily available, are you behaving immorally then?
If you eat an animal in (say) 20 years' time, when that involves quite a lot of effort (finding a butcher who sells it, paying the price premium, etc). Are you behaving immorally then?
If you eat an animal after they ban killing animals for food, is that immoral? (i.e. is it the law that makes the action immoral?)
At what point does our (presumably moral) action of eating meat become immoral? Is that up to us as individuals, or is it up to our churches, or government, or what? Who makes this decision, and how is that communicated, and is it retroactive?
- ragazzina 5y ago(Disclaimer: I am not a vegetarian) I see it as immoral now, and immoral in twenty years. It is just socially accepted. Most of the meat-eating people I know don't even try and justify from a moral standpoint. They usually say "I know it's wrong, I just like meat". So in twenty years they will say "I knew it was wrong, it was just how life was back then".
- noduerme 5y agoSwitch meat-eating for slave-owning and you're starting to justify tearing down those statues of Washington and Jefferson.