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commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoWould 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.
naught@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Animal agriculture is necessarily cruel. It is efficient. By your logic, this cruelty is negative. It sounds like we are very close to agreeing, frankly
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
i disagree.
naught@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Please show me that factory farming is overwhelmingly not cruel
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
cruelty would be inflicting pain for its own sake. in so-called factory farming, the pain is still only incidental. that is, if it were possible to create the same outputs with no additional inputs, and that process had no pain, there is no reason why a factory farming operation would prefer the painful process. so it is not cruel, it is only indifferent.