(February 1, 2024 at 1:37 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(February 1, 2024 at 1:29 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: Perhaps people saying eating meat is moral because it is supposedly natural gives me that face.
Eating meat is neither moral nor immoral.
Boru
It's difficult to explain why murder is wrong without implying that eating meat is wrong. The most obvious answer is that, like Descartes claimed, non-human animals cannot feel pain. But modern science has made it clear that for birds and mammals (aside from perhaps those with very devolved nervous systems such as naked mole rats) that's not the case. And I think we can all agree that even in Descartes'es time, there was no good reason to think that.