Declawing Cats

[Anomalocaris]

Individual revulsion is not a basis for general moral principle.    Morality is not a laundry list of private squeamishnesses.

Then what is it that you think morality is? Do you think it's merely rules for the betterment of society and humans? Then, that's not morals. That's just laws.

Individual morality might be different, but imposing individual morality on others is problematic.   Societal morality is just a cover for good laws.

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“People” who declaw cats should have their thumbs cut off.

Oh, but people are more important than cats, as are leather couches.

O h, they are.   Morality is a thing of people, if aspects of societal morality don't implicitly make people more important than other objects of morality, then that aspect of morality will gradually go away after a while when people take stock of their interests.