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When a lion kills a gazelle on the savannah, is that "kind and respectful"? No, it's just part of the "circle of life". Humans also interact with their enviro
by blendergeek 3y ago
When a lion kills a gazelle on the savannah, is that "kind and respectful"?
No, it's just part of the "circle of life".
Humans also interact with their environment and eat non human life forms (plants, cows, etc).
If we prove that trees have consciousness, will we need to stop killing them as well? Where does it end?
- toss1 3y agoWhere it should end is with humans creating engineered (whether genetic-engineered, or using fungi, etc. is irrelevant) foods and materials such that we don't need to be farming, brutalizing, and killing animals and plants on industrial scales, deforesting vast regions to graze cattle, etc.. We are likely generations away from that, but it does seem to be the direction we're headed.
- smogcutter 3y agoThe irony is that argument also ends in the effective extinction of most farmed animals, or at the very least a massive die-off.
- sweetheart 3y agoThe morality of our actions isn’t determined by what lions do. As for the tree hypothetical, why don’t we cross that bridge when we get there.