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    2 months ago

    if you have an argument that it is immoral, make it. i don’t care for your interrogative style.

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      2 months ago

      I like to give people questions to ponder and explore. I think my arguments are very clear from the questions I have raised. Suffering of conscious beings is a negative thing. Particularly the egregious conditions in which we raise our “meat”. This isn’t even considering the horrible conditions that humans suffer working in and around the meat industry.

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        I like to give people questions to ponder and explore.

        if you don’t wan to construct an argument that’s fine, but the socratic method isn’t terribly convincing for me and many others.

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          You can’t appreciate a philosophical argument on a philosophical issue? I suppose that can be valid. It seems to me you don’t want to consider the ideas I have raised in good faith

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            2 months ago

            i’m willing to consider a fully formed argument. i’m not willing to be pestered by an endless interrogation.

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          There’s obviously no way to prove this sort of statement, however every conscious being I’ve asked has told me they don’t like suffering. Additionally, almost all conscious beings specifically go out of their way to avoid suffering. I personally find this evidence sufficiently convincing.

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              We’re not simply talking about pain, though. I like the painful sensation from hot peppers, for example, but I wouldn’t ever wish to subject myself to the systematic violence and awful conditions that farmed animals face.

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          Can you supply a convincing argument for suffering? We are fully capable of living with much, much less meat production. Why should we continue to inflict pain on things which can experience it? It seems manifest to me

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            Can you supply a convincing argument for suffering?

            i’m not saying it’s a moral good. i’m saying it’s amoral. as in it is neither good or bad in itself.

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              We have agency over our actions and the ability to reduce the negative impacts we have on the world. We are unique in this ability, and we should exercise it

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                  Would you kick a dog in the street? Shoot a cat with a bb gun? These are things that happen with frequency, but I wouldn’t do because I think that causing pain to another animal, senselessly, is a bad thing.

                  Would you raise a chicken in complete darkness for its whole life? Would you raise a cow in a suffocatingly small pen among its excrement? Impregnate a cow constantly and steal its babies away for meat so you can continue to milk it until it dies? Animals feel pain. They communicate, they suffer, they mourn.

                  If you can supply an argument that causing suffering of innocent animals is good/doesn’t matter, I’m all ears.

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                    If you can supply an argument that causing suffering … is good/doesn’t matter

                    sure. battlefield amputations cause suffering. sometimes it saves a life. it’s good.

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                    Would you kick a dog in the street? Shoot a cat with a bb gun?

                    no. these are cruel. practicing cruelty toward animals may create a habit, and end with practicing cruelty toward people, which would be immoral. it is best not to practice cruelty at all.

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                    If you can supply an argument that causing suffering of innocent animals is good/doesn’t matter, I’m all ears.

                    “innocent” here is an appeal to emotion, since we don’t regard non-human animals as moral agents.