This line of reasoning is very flawed. Lions regularly commit infanticide and dolphins rape, therefore these must be ethical things to do? It’s a classical appeal to nature fallacy.
“Yes I killed those people my honor, but tigers kill people too, and even my fellow humans kill other humans all the time, so it’s perfectly ethical if I do it too. It’s just my way to connect with nature!”
Would it be ethical in your view to cut the throat of a dog from time to time and eat the body parts, even if alternatives are readily available?
The tiger has no other choice, and no moral capacity, but we do.
I don’t think that serious violence against animals without necessity to do so can be justified, and taking a life is one of the worst things you can do to a sentient being that doesn’t want to die.
I already have stated a thousand times that this is not an appeal to nature, the claim is not universalist it is strictly related to the killing of animals in the context of subsistence. All animals have a right to live and as part of the right to live there is a right to kill in order to live and substist. Furthermore part of the scaffolding that I do not want to get into because then I have to write even more is that death itself absent pain is of no moral significance because the subject cannot be present for their own death and therefore cannot suffer it. Suffering is the only universally significant moral concept because all beings share in it and actively avoid it. Therefore we have a moral responsibility to not inflict suffering, but suffering ==death.
Yes it is ethical to kill a dog to eat it. I mean I wouldn’t do it but it is ethical. Just because I emotionally have a response to it doesn’t change the logic of the matter. I never justified violence against animals fyi, I’m absolutely against that because it inflicts suffering. So in this case you would need to kill the dog without it suffering.
But yeah the line of thinking in order to convince others requires a lot more elaboration than Im willing at this point to give here.
Maybe I’ll put it to paper and tag everyone here, it would at least make for some interesting discussion.
This line of reasoning is very flawed. Lions regularly commit infanticide and dolphins rape, therefore these must be ethical things to do? It’s a classical appeal to nature fallacy.
“Yes I killed those people my honor, but tigers kill people too, and even my fellow humans kill other humans all the time, so it’s perfectly ethical if I do it too. It’s just my way to connect with nature!”
Would it be ethical in your view to cut the throat of a dog from time to time and eat the body parts, even if alternatives are readily available? The tiger has no other choice, and no moral capacity, but we do.
I don’t think that serious violence against animals without necessity to do so can be justified, and taking a life is one of the worst things you can do to a sentient being that doesn’t want to die.
I already have stated a thousand times that this is not an appeal to nature, the claim is not universalist it is strictly related to the killing of animals in the context of subsistence. All animals have a right to live and as part of the right to live there is a right to kill in order to live and substist. Furthermore part of the scaffolding that I do not want to get into because then I have to write even more is that death itself absent pain is of no moral significance because the subject cannot be present for their own death and therefore cannot suffer it. Suffering is the only universally significant moral concept because all beings share in it and actively avoid it. Therefore we have a moral responsibility to not inflict suffering, but suffering ==death.
Yes it is ethical to kill a dog to eat it. I mean I wouldn’t do it but it is ethical. Just because I emotionally have a response to it doesn’t change the logic of the matter. I never justified violence against animals fyi, I’m absolutely against that because it inflicts suffering. So in this case you would need to kill the dog without it suffering.
But yeah the line of thinking in order to convince others requires a lot more elaboration than Im willing at this point to give here.
Maybe I’ll put it to paper and tag everyone here, it would at least make for some interesting discussion.
Yay! We could have ethical discussion part 2. I’m on the side of the tigers.