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Quote from: Novel on February 13, 2013, 08:51:30 am

Quote from: Zangi on February 13, 2013, 03:29:09 am

The concentration of people here that don't eat tasty animal meat is astounding to me.

Personally, I am totally for People Eating Tasty Animals.  I have no compulsion to care about the morale and ethical reasons why I shouldn't, cause it is not even a factor in my decision to eat tasty animals.  Yes, I do know of what 'horrors' that may befall these poor poor animals.  I am not moved.

How about People eating dead People? Just wondering, omnivore here. By not moved, do you mean you don't find it a good reason not to eat meat, or not a good reason to farm them differently? If so, does kicking the dog not work for you? Please enlighten me.

Cannibalism: Sure, go ahead, face the consequences of it.
My monkeysphere does not extend to critters that are born and raised to be food.  Nor the wildlife that is hunted for food.
As long as it is not 'my' dog.  Of course, if I dislike the person themself, it would be pretty easy to get them into trouble...

To be clear, is unnecessary pain immaterial or not?

... OLD MAN HENDERSON FOR POPE 2013!

Warn me if they're using 4chan speak, please.

Really, what needs to happen is that all of the developing countries need to skip their moody adolescence, make up with themselves or break up peacefully, and kick out any corrupt politicians. Then all the countries of the world need to have all the citizens become peaceful, educated citizens, earnestly looking for a better world without name calling, with the leaders unanimously chosen by a peaceful process to be the brightest, best, and most moral of the citizens, and then we can get some real good done around the world.

Yeah, we can't wait that long.

The concentration of people here that don't eat tasty animal meat is astounding to me.

Personally, I am totally for People Eating Tasty Animals.  I have no compulsion to care about the morale and ethical reasons why I shouldn't, cause it is not even a factor in my decision to eat tasty animals.  Yes, I do know of what 'horrors' that may befall these poor poor animals.  I am not moved.

How about People eating dead People? Just wondering, omnivore here. By not moved, do you mean you don't find it a good reason not to eat meat, or not a good reason to farm them differently? If so, does kicking the dog not work for you? Please enlighten me.

I usually tend to judge all life based upon its individual actions and intentions, rather than the form it happens to take, and thus generally don't see any entity as inherently more valuable than any other. Because of this, whenever I must fulfill my mortal need for sustenance, I'm pretty much willing to consume whatever is available to me; be it plant, insect, animal, human, or whatever.

That being said, I stand strongly against the unnecessary suffering of any life form, and strive to prevent it from occurring whenever & wherever I am able.

That's a non-sequitur, to be honest. Presumably go going via the least pain-induced, you'd focus on the less intelligent forms of life. It doesn't work in a worth vs value sense, either. If you were guaranteed the same amount of suffering would result from eating a fly or a baby, you would choose the fly. Part of this is because you're human and as such can't be entirely neutral, but i doubt that would be the prime factor.

I have felt the urge to laugh when i shouldn't too many times today, and American obesity is testing me. Please stop.

Tell me, how do they prevent friends of a griefer from cashing in on his bounty?

I want to make a joke, but that's too depressing.

I'm glad you're being intelligent about this as usual, Bay 12. I was hoping people wouldn't say that we should stop eating animals for illogical ideological reasons. However, the same counterargument still holds ground; if we don't need meat we wont bother with the animals that give it to us. They'll be mass cullings, and i suspect it would take many generations for the amount of animals that have lived human free in the wild outstrip the ones killed then or because of overgrazing and suchlike from a lack of natural predators.