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I tend to agree with Peter Singer on this one. > The fundamental interest that entitles a being to equal consideration is the capacity for "suffering and/or en
by tmnvix 2y ago
I tend to agree with Peter Singer on this one.
> The fundamental interest that entitles a being to equal consideration is the capacity for "suffering and/or enjoyment or happiness".
It's a high (and sometimes blurry) bar, for sure, but ignoring it is a disservice to yourself in my opinion.
- vacuity 2y agoIt fits in with the notion of not doing harm unless necessary, since it's usually easy to determine when someone is or could be harmed/suffering.
- PretzelPirate 2y agoI'd love to see how we can adopt this in our current economic system. Would we classify factory farming as necessary even though it causes extreme harm to sentient beings? We'd have to make a huge shift in food production and eating habits.
- vacuity 2y agoWe haven't remotely tried alternatives, and the main arguments for retaining factory farming seem to be "I'm entitled to eat meat because I like it and pay for it" and perhaps "there are too many moving parts to just stop with no consequences", which I don't find convincing. Even if the process of fixing it is also subject to the rule, so we can't just cut jobs immediately, I think the main obstacle is that there simply isn't the collective will to change.