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Originally Posted by zebrazebrazebraSHAFT
I took an ethics class a few years back and it dealt heavily with animal rights, since that class I've not been able to justify killing animals. So I'm basically a non-practicing vegan, I'd love to try it out but meat is just too damn tasty and convenient. If anyone has any solid arguments justifying the killing of animals I'd love to discuss it.
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I've never taken an ethics class, but I think anybody who thinks on a regular basis eventually comes to this conclusion. Mine came in the form of this:
If at some point in the future, intelligent species are scanning the Universe for life, and they come across Earth, and it may seem like an "advanced" species, except that the majority of the species, despite their massive technological advances in agriculture and food processing, still regularly consume flesh of beings that owned complex organs such as eyes and brains weeks, if not days, or hours before.
Simplified and sci-fi for sure, but it had an effect on me. I think any advanced civilization will eventually grow out of eating animals for sustenance. The mere fact that we (in the West, anyways) look down on eating some animals (dogs, cats, rats) but are perfectly fine with consuming others is another point that doesn't make a whole lot of sense.