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My only rationale for why it's OK for me to eat pigs is that the pigs would definitely eat me if the opportunity arose, and in this respect they are different f
by tialaramex 3y ago
My only rationale for why it's OK for me to eat pigs is that the pigs would definitely eat me if the opportunity arose, and in this respect they are different from say, cows, or indeed octopuses, which show no inclination to consume human meat.
If you (as sometimes happens to farmers) drop dead in a pig sty after not long the pigs will eat you because you're food and they're hungry.
- collingreen 3y agoCats will do this too; do you support eating house cats?
- rangerelf 3y agoDo you?
- tialaramex 3y agoI think cats would taste awful but if other people want to eat cats I have no objection that wouldn't just as well apply to my consumption of pork.
- BenjiWiebe 3y agoI've had some friends/family spend time in Haiti. Feral "domestic" cats are a delicacy and the hunt itself is part of the enjoyment.
- ultrarunner 3y agoThis argument has appeared multiple times in this thread, and I'm genuinely curious: if pigs' behavior demonstrates to you that their status is low enough to warrant their treatment, why does adopting that behavior seem like a reasonable reaction? Or would you find a pig killing and eating a human to be a morally neutral incident that, while maybe not preferable, has no ultimate weight to consider?
- tialaramex 3y agoNot low enough, high enough, the pigs, are much closer to me than to say a tree. Of course a pig killing and eating a human is morally neutral, I'd put it in the same bucket as a human falling off a step ladder, I have no reason to believe that the pig thinks humans are moral actors it should consider in a system of ethics.
- salad-tycoon 3y agoI guess this argument also makes mushrooms ok to eat. Perfect. In fact, there is/was even a mushroom burial death suit. https://grist.org/living/mushroom-burial-suit-turns-dead-bodies-into-clean-compost/?ssp=1&darkschemeovr=1&setlang=en&cc=US&safesearch=moderate https://grist.org/living/mushroom-burial-suit-turns-dead-bod...
- hombre_fatal 3y agoYou still have to finish connecting the dots here: How does that morally justify breeding them by the billions for slaughter?