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Animals are not humans. Comparing a mink farm to slavery is ill informed at best if not just plainly insulting.
by throwaway4aday 4y ago
Animals are not humans. Comparing a mink farm to slavery is ill informed at best if not just plainly insulting.
- lapinot 4y ago:) i'm glad you're one of the lucky people learning today about an important part of ethical philosophy. Ever heard about Peter Singer? You know, the same one that coined "effective altruism". I'm not gonna explain more, this is not something for an hn thread: i'm not gonna botcher the basics against your will right now, but at least please just accept that this is a real thing. It is a long philosophical tradition, well known in ethical philosophy, that basically has always been present as a movement inside human philosophies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Liberation_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Liberation_(book) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciesism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciesism
- whiddershins 4y agoAnd it is largely wrong, in my estimation.
- throwaway4aday 4y agoNot interested.
- jgwil2 4y agoComparing is not the same as equating. Of course, almost everyone agrees that human slavery is a much greater evil than animal captivity, which is why one practice is universally outlawed while the other is found in just about every human society. That doesn't mean that comparisons between the two should be categorically dismissed; on the contrary, their value is in forcing us to think more deeply about our role in the moral universe.