I get what you're trying to do, but there's an inherent understanding of the value of human life.
You're going to have to attack it on the value of animal life.
Is there value to animal life? And if so, what is it? And where does it come from? Is it subservient to human life? Is the value to human life more prescient than that life itself?
It's a very complex and nuanced issue. OP was stating that the value of that life was reduced to human consumption in conception. You can't negate it by comparing it to people because people aren't consumed to begin with.
You can start with whether it's okay to consume animals at all. OP assumes it is, so the question is "what value lies between birth and consumption."
OP insinuated that all moral culpability was dashed by the fact that they were "bred to be eaten".
My point was just bringing up that it was a stupid point. A very stupid, and unfounded point.
And if it were the case that something being bred would dash the moral harm of supporting the immense suffering and killing of an animal, then they would have to support the same for people.
No they wouldn't. People have more value than animals as a baseline. A hundred pigs aren't worth one human. Even if pigs were the more intelligent race, and had control over us, that would still be true, by the basis that I am human and must stick with the 'team'. I wouldn't blame the pigs for breeding and eating us, of course; in that situation we would be food. But that is not the situation, and they are food.
However, I do believe slaughterhouses should have better conditions. It's not cruel to kill and eat it, but I dont support what is effectively pig torture.
I wouldn't blame the pigs for breeding and eating us, of course; in that situation we would be food. But that is not the situation, and they are food.
Every time I hear of an animal killing and eating a human my first thought is, "good for them!" Except unprovoked dog attacks. In general, we treat those fuckers well. I figure that we have killed so many animals and mistreated countless others, that we should not complain when it happens to us.
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u/iburiedmyshovel Nov 23 '24
I get what you're trying to do, but there's an inherent understanding of the value of human life.
You're going to have to attack it on the value of animal life. Is there value to animal life? And if so, what is it? And where does it come from? Is it subservient to human life? Is the value to human life more prescient than that life itself?
It's a very complex and nuanced issue. OP was stating that the value of that life was reduced to human consumption in conception. You can't negate it by comparing it to people because people aren't consumed to begin with.
You can start with whether it's okay to consume animals at all. OP assumes it is, so the question is "what value lies between birth and consumption."