(September 4, 2013 at 12:12 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(September 4, 2013 at 11:40 am)max-greece Wrote: Our solitary person on the island discovers there are wild pigs. He sets traps and mortally wounds one. He has 2 choices - let the animal bleed to death in great pain or put it out of its misery ASAP.
If he chooses the latter he is making a moral decision that does not relate directly to his survival.
But it does relate an other conscious being.
Yes - but not of the same species and therefore neither societal nor religious in nature.
Plus its hard to come up with a moral position for a carrot.