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There's something I don't really understand in this discussion, and though it looks like it's already been flagged, I suppose I'll try my luck anyway. The ques
by scythe 3y ago
There's something I don't really understand in this discussion, and though it looks like it's already been flagged, I suppose I'll try my luck anyway.
The question "is it ethical to farm octopus?" sounds to me a little like the question "should we allow primates to vote?". Obviously, we allow some primates to vote. "Octopus" does not describe a single species, or a single genus, or even a single family, but in fact an entire order of animals. "Primate", as you might recall, is also an order. I.e. we should expect the octopodans to be roughly as diverse, behaviorally and anatomically, as the primates.
So: what gives? How can we generalize the observations of one or two kinds of octopus to hundreds of distantly related species?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y agoIs it ethical to farm primates?
- errantwalker 3y ago“The Thing cannot be described - there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order. A mountain walked or stumbled. If I say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, I shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings; but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful.” Master BRUNCH. Pulpo a la Gallega (Polbo á feira)