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This 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 wa
by ultrarunner 3y ago
This 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...