RE: Veganism
August 28, 2024 at 10:22 am
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2024 at 10:23 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Did a god give us permission to do a bad thing, in your view?
I don't think that lions have much in the way of ethical concerns. Or grizzlies. They're not moral actors. Perhaps if they were more intelligent, or more empathetic, they would develop such concerns..just as we have, and they'd be standing there wondering much the same as you and I are now. We're all cousins, after all. So..OFC we can do it, maybe some god even gave us permission to do it...but should we do it, and if we are going to do it or even must do it, can we do it in a way that addresses such concerns?
While I don't think that lions and grizzlies make a valid moral comparison, they probably do speak to our existential realities. Bears more so than lions as fellow omnivores. Being able to digest plant fiber does not actually mean that we or grizzlies could survive as we are on it. That's the problem that omnivorous adaptation solves in the first place. Rightly or wrongly, from a moral point of view, bears and humans have both evolved to exploit a variety of food sources. If there's something morally wrong with it, and in a way that invokes a moral responsibility analagous to human moral responsibility...we'd have to talk to the architect of that situation. Who might that be, in your view?
I don't think that lions have much in the way of ethical concerns. Or grizzlies. They're not moral actors. Perhaps if they were more intelligent, or more empathetic, they would develop such concerns..just as we have, and they'd be standing there wondering much the same as you and I are now. We're all cousins, after all. So..OFC we can do it, maybe some god even gave us permission to do it...but should we do it, and if we are going to do it or even must do it, can we do it in a way that addresses such concerns?
While I don't think that lions and grizzlies make a valid moral comparison, they probably do speak to our existential realities. Bears more so than lions as fellow omnivores. Being able to digest plant fiber does not actually mean that we or grizzlies could survive as we are on it. That's the problem that omnivorous adaptation solves in the first place. Rightly or wrongly, from a moral point of view, bears and humans have both evolved to exploit a variety of food sources. If there's something morally wrong with it, and in a way that invokes a moral responsibility analagous to human moral responsibility...we'd have to talk to the architect of that situation. Who might that be, in your view?
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