RE: are vegetarians more ethical by not eating meat?
March 8, 2013 at 11:24 am
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2013 at 11:26 am by Creed of Heresy.)
I'll be honest, when I die, I want to be buried so that nature can devour me. Not because I want to be laid to rest or anything, but just cuz, well, serve some purpose in death. Feed some worms, you know?
Every race has a biological imperative to put itself first before anything else. Same with human beings. We put ourselves first. It's just nature. Eating animals isn't unethical, if we go by the ethics of nature [the only ethics that matter in this case]. Yes, we can choose to eat either plants or animals but plants are living organisms, too. Just cuz it can't yelp when you pluck an apple doesn't mean it's not made of organic, living materials. You start the argument that eating animals is unethical then you slide down the slippery slope to the point that you eventually reach the point where you'll have to starve to death because life comes from death via consumption.
I don't eat that cow, a lion is going to eat it for me. Fuck you, lion, that cow is MINE!
Noooo, he's just being realistic about what the extents of "humane treatment" are. While they live, treat them well, and when you go to kill them [because they're gonna die anyway eventually], do it quickly and cleanly and don't make them suffer. There's no contradiction here unless you're just trying to split hairs, which is just petty and argumentative for the sake of being petty and argumentative.
Every race has a biological imperative to put itself first before anything else. Same with human beings. We put ourselves first. It's just nature. Eating animals isn't unethical, if we go by the ethics of nature [the only ethics that matter in this case]. Yes, we can choose to eat either plants or animals but plants are living organisms, too. Just cuz it can't yelp when you pluck an apple doesn't mean it's not made of organic, living materials. You start the argument that eating animals is unethical then you slide down the slippery slope to the point that you eventually reach the point where you'll have to starve to death because life comes from death via consumption.
I don't eat that cow, a lion is going to eat it for me. Fuck you, lion, that cow is MINE!
(March 8, 2013 at 9:58 am)genkaus Wrote:(March 8, 2013 at 9:47 am)Gabriel Syme Wrote: Human beings are omnivores* and so it is not unethical to eat meat.
However, this does not excuse us from the duty to treat animals in a humane fashion, which we should do always.
If it is our duty to treat animals in a humane fashion then it would be unethical to not do so and killing and eating them would definitely be treating them in inhumane fashion. You are contradicting yourself here.
Noooo, he's just being realistic about what the extents of "humane treatment" are. While they live, treat them well, and when you go to kill them [because they're gonna die anyway eventually], do it quickly and cleanly and don't make them suffer. There's no contradiction here unless you're just trying to split hairs, which is just petty and argumentative for the sake of being petty and argumentative.
