RE: How do religious people justify raising and slaughtering animals for food?
November 29, 2017 at 12:53 pm
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2017 at 1:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The environmental impact of autotrophism in human beings, even in a limited manifestation, was briefly touched upon in one of your own links..which I just quoted.
It's not my job to imagine the problems you think might be apparent with the ability to synthesize some or all of ones own food from inorganic material. The ethical "problems" for this in it's purest form are, frankly....nil, and in it;s current form it is a -solution- to ethical and practical problems as agriculture. Whatever amount of our food we could synthesize is a reduction in the suffering of whatever animals we'd otherwise eat, or destroy to make arable land... and a reduction in the suffering of human animals who would not otherwise eat at all..and any additional suffering that arose from conflict over those resources we would not, then, need consume or seek. If you can't see the improvements we've already made..then perhaps you should go back to scavenging for nuts and trying to trick pigs into pits filled with fire hardened spikes and get a practical education?
If you want to play the "but what if" game...then at least finish the sentence. If there is a design, if there is a creator... the flaws of that design and the limits of that creator are made apparent in all of the improvements that we have been forced by necessity of survival to make, and which we further refined for no reason other than what must amount to a greater capacity and adherence to ethical standards than the being which purportedly created us. Even moreso by all the improvements we can see but cannot yet actualize- our wish to do better combined with our inability to grant wishes. We did this, all of it, without a single ounce of the proposed power and knowledge of some ridiculous god.
"But what if"...but what if what? What if things had been different? Then things would be different. If the clock could be rolled back then the human race would certainly have some hot tips for the bumbler at the cosmic controls.
It's not my job to imagine the problems you think might be apparent with the ability to synthesize some or all of ones own food from inorganic material. The ethical "problems" for this in it's purest form are, frankly....nil, and in it;s current form it is a -solution- to ethical and practical problems as agriculture. Whatever amount of our food we could synthesize is a reduction in the suffering of whatever animals we'd otherwise eat, or destroy to make arable land... and a reduction in the suffering of human animals who would not otherwise eat at all..and any additional suffering that arose from conflict over those resources we would not, then, need consume or seek. If you can't see the improvements we've already made..then perhaps you should go back to scavenging for nuts and trying to trick pigs into pits filled with fire hardened spikes and get a practical education?
If you want to play the "but what if" game...then at least finish the sentence. If there is a design, if there is a creator... the flaws of that design and the limits of that creator are made apparent in all of the improvements that we have been forced by necessity of survival to make, and which we further refined for no reason other than what must amount to a greater capacity and adherence to ethical standards than the being which purportedly created us. Even moreso by all the improvements we can see but cannot yet actualize- our wish to do better combined with our inability to grant wishes. We did this, all of it, without a single ounce of the proposed power and knowledge of some ridiculous god.
"But what if"...but what if what? What if things had been different? Then things would be different. If the clock could be rolled back then the human race would certainly have some hot tips for the bumbler at the cosmic controls.
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