• penguin@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    What does betrayal have to do with the morality of killing something?

    It’s either right or wrong to kill something if you don’t have to for survival.

    If you think killing dogs is wrong, then killing cows or pigs should also be wrong.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think it’s unfair to say there’s a spectrum to this. I’m not going to feel as bad with an ant dying compared to a dog

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        1 year ago

        I agree. I still eat shrimp and some fish. The fish bother me, but not enough to stop eating them, and the shrimp don’t bother me cause they’re basically underwater crickets.

        For example killing an elephant is worse than killing a chicken. And everyone draws the line somewhere already (unless you’re fine with eating endangered animals and even cannibalism). It’s just where does your own morality draw the line at what level of creature it’s ok to ask to die for your next meal?

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        1 year ago

        Not sure that an ant is relevant to this discussion, since it’s not really similar to a cow, pig, dog, cat, etc.

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      1 year ago

      You’re talking about morality and I’m considering people’s feelings, however convoluted they might be. It’s not a moral issue, it’s marketing.

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          1 year ago

          Your food and clothing likely involved slavery directly and murder by less than a degree of separation, you goober. Yes, it’s a marketing issue.

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            1 year ago

            Clothing doesn’t require the death of anyone the same way eating meat does.

            One it’s possible to be cruelty free, and the other is not.

            Also, if I knew for a fact that a company committed acts of evil, I would avoid them as best I could, just like I do with meat.

            Complaining that eating meat is not actually wrong, it’s just marketing, is just a laughable way to look at ethics and empathy.

            Lastly, whataboutism is a joke of a defence.

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              1 year ago

              You’ve said quite a bit to this vegetarian-since-you-were-an-egg that I processed well over a decade ago. I want you, if you don’t mind, to read my other replies and to reread the question I responded to. And with the most belabored sigh that you can imagine, can I say please?