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Don't you think that killing an animal is unethical no matter how nicely it used to be treated? I'm currently trying to keep my meat consumption as low as possi
by Toutouxc 5y ago
Don't you think that killing an animal is unethical no matter how nicely it used to be treated? I'm currently trying to keep my meat consumption as low as possible, but I still eat some and I don't think it's very ethical of me. I'm the higher life form and cows can't really do anything about it, and most people won't hold it against me, but I don't think there's anything ethical about it.
- jakear 5y agoI believe that as conscious entities we have the power to choose the ethical “axioms” we use to guide our decisions. Under the axioms I’ve chosen I can “prove” (in a surprisingly formal sense) the claim “it is ethically okay to consume animals that have been treated humanely”. That being said, it would only take a slight modification to one of my axioms to successfully argue the opposite. I’d be very interested to hear how you use your axioms to argue the opposite. I’m happy to share mine but don’t want to taint your thought process before you’ve had time to fully consider the problem.