(August 30, 2015 at 9:36 am)robvalue Wrote:(August 30, 2015 at 7:17 am)wallym Wrote: Curious what qualifies as fairness to non-humans.
This is even more difficult than fairness to humans. My ideas of what is fair are very different to the bulk of society. At the very least, I'd like to see unnecessary suffering reduced, and on the whole that is the way things are going. Well, in some countries anyway. Even in England our animal welfare laws are horrendously flawed, and fucking Cameron is trying to regress them further, but in some countries they don't even have any.
Personally, my mantra is to try and treat animals as well as humans, as far as is practically possible. This becomes more and more difficult as you move towards lower forms of life like insects, but I still try and at least minimize my harm. I'm far from perfect, I just do my best.
It's possible that one day things will be very different. There's a brand new business venture on the go which could revolutionalize things if it works out.
Curious what you do to rank animals. Some science involved, or is it a 'least like humans' dealio?
