(August 20, 2024 at 12:35 pm)h311inac311 Wrote: My argument in favor of eating animals has always been simple, "if animals eat animals then why can't humans?"
If men are nothing more than highly intelligent animals then why can't we eat other animals?
Do you actually believe in the premise of that argument? What's the if doing there? Say we were something more than highly intelligent animals...would there, then, be some reason why we can't or shouldn't?
I think we've got an exclusively suboptimal decision field. There is no good choice. We can only choose what type and what amount of moral complicity we're comfortable with stuffing in our mouths. The chain of moral responsibility doesn't go further, in my view, because this is a natural evil. An unfortunate state of affairs that no moral actor or moral agent is responsible for.
A difficult position for a christian to support, as christianity is premised on a soul-making theodicy where a god is very much morally and actually responsible for natural evil. All a part of the plan.
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