RE: Declawing Cats
July 29, 2019 at 10:36 am
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2019 at 10:43 am by Anomalocaris.)
(July 29, 2019 at 10:25 am)Shell B Wrote:(July 29, 2019 at 10:19 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: An obvious difference is allowing women to work or vote, while resisted because it is threatening to established male social privilege, materially enriches the society by enlisting more of those capable to actually contribute the capability, and, as demonstrated during the two world wars, makes the society more robust and capable of dealing with extreme stress. So even the selfish who would protect male privilege knowns it is not all a net loss to them if women were to work and vote.
Not so with the ability to ignore animal suffering to adopt animals to our needs.
You have a very strange moral philosophy and an even stranger commitment to it. Right and wrong isn’t determined by its benefit to humanity.
Right or wrong is a human concept, so it can only have any effect over the long run if enough humans have skin in its game. Ultimately, no concepts of right or wrong, however strongly felt by some at some time, can be sustained and accepted over long periods unless it can plausibly be represented as being beneficial or harmful to humanity.
So What is right or wrong is less salient than why there should be right or wrong. Why there should be right and wrong is determined by benefit to humanity.