RE: Do you agree with Richard Dawkins?
April 18, 2012 at 6:46 pm
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2012 at 6:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You require an argument to show you that our survival kills animals, no matter how much we may want to avoid it, seriously? Fine, just give me your pet solution, and I'll run a clinic on which animals it kills and why. Then, after that, I'll give you a longer list of animals that suffer, but stubbornly refuse to die nonetheless. Then you can tell me whether or not it's "necessary" and whether or not this price seems to be the "lesser of two evils".
I'm not judging you for your compassion. I'm not attacking you for it. I'm simply saying that "because we have empathy" does not provide some rock solid objective, logical argument. We're awful selective with our empathy aren't we? I'm asking you why I should extend my empathy, not why I should have it. I'm asking you if by following my own sense of empathy it's possible that I may actually be causing yet more "unneccessary suffering" to some other group of "sentient" creatures. How am I to decide which of two separate sentient creatures to side with if a conflict arises?
I'm not judging you for your compassion. I'm not attacking you for it. I'm simply saying that "because we have empathy" does not provide some rock solid objective, logical argument. We're awful selective with our empathy aren't we? I'm asking you why I should extend my empathy, not why I should have it. I'm asking you if by following my own sense of empathy it's possible that I may actually be causing yet more "unneccessary suffering" to some other group of "sentient" creatures. How am I to decide which of two separate sentient creatures to side with if a conflict arises?
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