RE: Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?
January 25, 2014 at 7:14 pm
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2014 at 7:15 pm by bennyboy.)
I think this thread is spinning off into a red-herring fest.
The philosophical issue with eating meat is simple:
-Humans suffer, and don't like it.
-We've therefore decided that causing human suffering is immoral.
-Animals suffer, but are not human.
The question is clear: is it causing suffering which is immoral, or is it only causing suffering in humans which is immoral? And the secondary question: how are we to decide between the two?
So far, people on both sides of the question have ignored the second question: it seems the actual answer (buried as it is under rhetoric and anecdote) is that each person has adopted the life choice that feels right to him. Is it that all moral systems are really a kind of democratic reconciliation of our instincts or learned feelings about things, rather than logic?
Maybe morality itself is wrong then, because I can think of no cases where this isn't the case.
The philosophical issue with eating meat is simple:
-Humans suffer, and don't like it.
-We've therefore decided that causing human suffering is immoral.
-Animals suffer, but are not human.
The question is clear: is it causing suffering which is immoral, or is it only causing suffering in humans which is immoral? And the secondary question: how are we to decide between the two?
So far, people on both sides of the question have ignored the second question: it seems the actual answer (buried as it is under rhetoric and anecdote) is that each person has adopted the life choice that feels right to him. Is it that all moral systems are really a kind of democratic reconciliation of our instincts or learned feelings about things, rather than logic?
Maybe morality itself is wrong then, because I can think of no cases where this isn't the case.
