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naught@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoCan 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
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
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.
naught@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
it’s not clear that animal suffering is a negative.
naught@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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.