RE: The ethics if factory farming
August 14, 2014 at 1:58 pm
(This post was last modified: August 14, 2014 at 2:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Also, we all live "naturally". The idea that something is artificial (especially regarding biology) is not that it is "not natural"- though admittedly we use the word this way constantly, but that it is "artifice" - made by humans. The distinction is in whether or not human beings made it, not whether or not it is fundamentally or intrinsically "not-natural". It's subtle, but important. It's also a distinction which serves to highlight our own opinions of ourselves more than anything objectively present, or some sort of attribute divorced from those opinions, in the world around us. If there was a word for things that wolves made, then it would be conceptually similar to the word artificial, and wolves could be said to be engaging in "wolficial" selection - as opposed to the "natural selection" that would occur in their absence (or in the absence of their efforts).
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