> In a generation or two, children will look with disgust on the aging adults who routinely ignored the horrors of ongoing animal abuse (by consuming meat). I

> In a generation or two, children will look with disgust on the aging adults who routinely ignored the horrors of ongoing animal abuse (by consuming meat). I suppose you can teach disgust, so once it becomes the cultural norm that will probably be true. But the crux of the matter seems to be that some people just don't have that visceral reaction to the suffering of others. Group 1 (feels compassion for others' suffering) and Group 2 (does not) just talk past each other because of this. I imagine similar discussions happened regarding slavery. Elsewhere in this thread [0]: > Would you be ok with killing another human to consume in a non-emergency scenario? If yes, then I understand your confusion. If not, then why not? > Self preservation. I am uneasy with killing a human for food because that means they could kill me for food. It is unlikely I will be killed by a cow anytime soon. (...) I meant that I wouldn't want to live in a world where humans eat humans because it would be dangerous. Pure self-preservation. The sensations of other beings are simply not a factor to the responder above and many people think like this (usually justified by the classic "plants could also feel pain for all I know, I don't care either way"). [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28515559 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28515559