RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
April 17, 2012 at 9:25 pm
(This post was last modified: April 17, 2012 at 9:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
"Sentience" is not determined by species? News to me. Are there sentient carrots and non sentient carrots then? Sentient cattle and non-sentient cattle? "Sentience" is a description of an effect that seems to be the product of a specific type of biological machinery which is doled out in certain species. Hell, only one species was involved in forming the definition of the word to begin with......Perhaps that's the trouble right there, we started with a shitty definition?
Under the "either you have it or you don't" argument, couldn't I just anesthetize any animal before slaughter? Or perhaps I could stun them so that they were not aware of what was about to happen, thereby eliminating any suffering? Like, IDK, a captive bolt or penetrating stunner to the head?
Under the "either you have it or you don't" argument, couldn't I just anesthetize any animal before slaughter? Or perhaps I could stun them so that they were not aware of what was about to happen, thereby eliminating any suffering? Like, IDK, a captive bolt or penetrating stunner to the head?
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