(May 28, 2014 at 4:14 pm)Tea Earl Grey Hot Wrote: Anyone here know of good arguments against the notion that eating animals is unethical? Why exactly is it ok to cage a cow its whole life, slaughter it, and then eat it but it's not ok to cage a human its whole life, slaughter it, and eat it? What exactly is the difference that makes the former ethical but the latter unethical?
If your only argument is "Duhhhh cow tasty!" then please leave. Serious arguments only please.
I don't believe that either is ethical. Of course the domestication of animals falls into a bit of a grey area. Most people just don't want to know about it.
Out of sight out of mind. But if we look at this with an eye toward an Aristotelian view on virtue then it falls somewhere on the line between virtue and vice. The domestication of animals and agriculture have been called "the worst mistake in the History of the world" by discover magazine. Of course I'm prohibited from posting links cause I'm new.
But the moderator seems content to delete the links so I'll give it a rip.
http://discovermagazine.com/1987/may/02-...human-race
As far as eating meat I think the evidence is in. We are meat eaters.
A million years of archeological evidence shows us that.
'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.
Hunter S. Thompson
