RE: How do religious people justify raising and slaughtering animals for food?
November 29, 2017 at 10:37 am
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2017 at 10:47 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Plants and bacteria are every bit as complex as we are...notions to the contrary rely on terms of art. The relevant difference is that autotrophic metabolism would be a qualified and unmitigated improvement on our own..because it's already better than our own. If we could engineer it in to ourselves - we'd do it in a heartbeat. I can tell you exactly what would happen if we were autotrophs.
We'd be capable of synthesizing metabolic requirements from inorganic material. Full stop. That's it, that's all. With that one difference much would be changed vis-a-vis the suffering and pain and utter nastiness in this world. That we have metabolic requirements in the first place is a crutch no divine force would have been forced to rely upon, but here we are. We -already- leverage autotrophism to reduce the flaws of both the design of this world and our own on moral and practical grounds...as the metabolism of autotrophs is more efficient and less shitty than the heterotrophic method of "eat em asshole first while they live" in the first place.
You are reasserting a failed objection that you thought was "kind of a fallacy". Not only is it not a fallacy, it's inarguable that what we know to be possible bcause it is present in this world, would reduce suffering in this world...and we're not only actively leveraging it to that very effect, we're looking to mimic the ability with technology. Yet another patch, as hunting was a patch, as farming was a patch, on the poor design of this proposed creator...thought up and employed by the very chimps it benevolently failed to contain or provide for, in it's omniscience, in it's omnipotence.
We'd be capable of synthesizing metabolic requirements from inorganic material. Full stop. That's it, that's all. With that one difference much would be changed vis-a-vis the suffering and pain and utter nastiness in this world. That we have metabolic requirements in the first place is a crutch no divine force would have been forced to rely upon, but here we are. We -already- leverage autotrophism to reduce the flaws of both the design of this world and our own on moral and practical grounds...as the metabolism of autotrophs is more efficient and less shitty than the heterotrophic method of "eat em asshole first while they live" in the first place.
You are reasserting a failed objection that you thought was "kind of a fallacy". Not only is it not a fallacy, it's inarguable that what we know to be possible bcause it is present in this world, would reduce suffering in this world...and we're not only actively leveraging it to that very effect, we're looking to mimic the ability with technology. Yet another patch, as hunting was a patch, as farming was a patch, on the poor design of this proposed creator...thought up and employed by the very chimps it benevolently failed to contain or provide for, in it's omniscience, in it's omnipotence.
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