(April 17, 2012 at 4:06 pm)Faith No More Wrote:mediamogul Wrote:I think Dawkins is saying its a kind of prejudice to elevate the suffering of humans over the suffering and rights of animals due purely to the fact that we are humans. Its like favoring your own race or gender and discriminating against them based on a similar prejudice.
Well, what is your justification for it being okay to eat plants but not animals? Could it not be said that you are discriminating against them because they are not animals like you?
Plants don't have a nervous system capable of supporting sentience. Show me a plant that can meaningfully suffer and then there will be an issue.
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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." -Voltaire
