SMS is still the dominant message format in some countries
SMS is still the dominant message format in some countries
this is exactly the kind of thing the senior engineers above me at my last job would use… Their code made me cry
People use words in varied ways to make rhetorical points and get people to consider things they might not have otherwise. Oh no! I’m sorry that cognitive dissonance is stressful
We are the ones with the social system allowing for moral frameworks to guide our decisionmaking. Cheetahs aren’t moral agents … Plus, they are obligate carnivores anyway (which is why your cat should not be deprived of meat)
please act in good faith or let me know that you’re not interested in doing so
There are no creatures with souls. But no, I wouldn’t say keeping a cat in general is immoral. There are definitely ethical concerns around things like kitten breeding mills and letting cats roam around outdoors, though
Using linguistic prescriptivism to shut down an argument and calling it “the truth” and “reality” to avoid thinking about what somebody means when they say a word is… certainly something
You said they were morally equivalent when you called it murder
I didn’t, actually
and you said it again just now
I didn’t, actually
Why does killing an animal for food carry any moral weight?
Because humans aren’t special unique beings with souls that make us the only ones with moral worth. Many animals are capable of suffering and emotion.
Cheetahs don’t get any flak for hunting caribou.
We are the ones with the social system allowing for moral frameworks to guide our decisionmaking. Cheetahs aren’t moral agents. And if they are, they follow cheetah morality. Plus, they are obligate carnivores anyway (which is why your cat should not be deprived of meat)
whether or not we can live without meat (we can), we certainly can’t live without plants. Even if you eat only meat, you depend on plants (and roughly 10x as much) in a lower trophic level. There is currently no way to avoid starving to death or dying of malnutrition without harming plants
pedantry is an incredible argumentative strategy. Truly unstoppable. Why think critically when you can read a dictionary instead?
When did I say that? My statement points out that rituals to make yourself feel better about killing an animal do not change that animal’s experience of being killed or the moral weight of that action
The “entertainment” here I believe refers to the pleasurable experience of eating the animal as food. Since it’s not out of necessity
I’m sure that comforted Biggun while he was murdered by his friend
I think it’s a thin object like a street sign that is reflective due to the high angle of incidence from the camera
The board is now injera and is flooded with various Ethiopian stews and vegetable dishes
an entirely separate game of Go plays out on the corners of the tiles
appropriated
I think you’re forgetting a little bit of history
braindeath isn’t just a mental condition though. It’s death