Childhood indoctrination

[Gilgamesh]

I don't accept that killing animals for meat is okay because everyone else does; I accept that it's okay because I can't reason that it's wrong.

I assume you reason that killing other people is wrong. What rational distinction do you see between killing non-human animals who want to live and human animals who want to live?

I just made one distinction. One point to reason that killing non-human animals is okay, where as killing humans is not, is that we eat non-human animals. We don't eat other humans.

Although, I don't necessarily think killing humans is wrong in the first place.

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Me too! And so does any cow and her calf and any sheep and any camel, and we have as much or as little right to ask for a good life as they do.

Why? We have power over them. We have the power to use them as a resource. I'd say that gives us more right. To me, it doesn't matter what you say or what the animal would say. Morality is subjective.