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Hurting cows - I just wanted to point out that if you love having cows around, you might be in for a surprise. I suppose that might be a useful thing to point
by dionidium 17y ago
Hurting cows - I just wanted to point out that if you love having cows around, you might be in for a surprise.
I suppose that might be a useful thing to point out if there were anyone on the planet who became a vegetarian to maximize the cow population, regardless of the consequences.
Who are you arguing against?
- Tichy 17y agoI think a lot of people become vegetarians out of love for animals. Not sure if fading them out of existence is what they have in mind. Anyway, it was just an example for naive ethics, because meat eating was mentioned in the original article. I sympathize with wanting to do good, but the approach stated falls apart on all accounts in my opinion.
- dionidium 17y agoI think a lot of people become vegetarians out of love for animals. I think you're tricking yourself with words. When I say "I love brownies" I don't mean that I desire the existence of as many brownies as possible, even if I can't eat them.
- Tichy 17y agoI think the vegetarians who say "I love animals" mean something entirely different from what you mean when you say "I love brownies"...
- dionidium 17y agoOf course, the "eating" in my analogy isn't the point, which was merely to demonstrate that you're confusing different uses of the word "love." But, yeah, I obviously should have chosen a different example :)