RE: Declawing Cats
July 31, 2019 at 12:27 am
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2019 at 12:29 am by Anomalocaris.)
(July 30, 2019 at 11:56 pm)Shell B Wrote:(July 30, 2019 at 11:28 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: May all those people appreciate it when someone else value the comfort of a rat on par with their life and wellbeing.
Valuing the life of one animal that has not even the remotest theoretical and most general of possibilities of reciprocating the favor in a practical way on par with that of another that does have a moderate probability of gratitude and reciprocation is not on the whole a formula for evolutionary success.
Well, that’s an altogether selfish way of looking at it.
Ultimately, durability of moral principles depends it being plausibly representable as being good for the community or society that holds it.
