(May 19, 2013 at 2:25 pm)Sal Wrote: Heh, if someone is gonna eat the remains of my corpse after I'm dead, be my guest. After I'm dead, I won't be, so I won't even be around to experience suffering.We're talking about slaughter, which is actively killing an animal, usually in the prime of its life when the flesh tastes best, and I suspect you might object to someone killing you in your twenties, painfully or otherwise.
(May 19, 2013 at 2:25 pm)Sal Wrote: Now, I don't value humans the same as I value an animal. I just don't. To me, I even value insects below, say, a sparrow. I value dogs over cats (I'm a dog person), I value loads of stuff over other stuff. Why shouldn't I?Because our value systems can, like any other object of science, be scrutinized regarding their integrity. Right now, our value systems have been formed by millenia of Christian or heathen dogma, and I propose we need to re-evaluate quite a few aspects of it.
(May 19, 2013 at 2:25 pm)Sal Wrote: The difference between me and a sheep getting killed is that our view of reality and pain & suffering aren't the same; how could they be?Quite easily, your will to live and ability to suffer serves the same purpose as that of any animal, namely to keep that animal alive and well, human or otherwise. There is no reason to suppose a difference if the evolutionary function is identical and biology is so strikingly similar.
"Men see clearly enough the barbarity of all ages — except their own!" — Ernest Crosby.
