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    Plants and Vegetarianism

    plants do not have a subjective experience of pain, because they lack brains. It is like a spontaneous reaction that you can do, even unconsciously. If what you posted is evidence that plants are sentient, then so are modern day computers and so is your immune system and your gut system, because...
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    Is vegan ethics based on the idea that man is equal or superior to animals?

    The correct reasoning is: "How can you eat meat? Animals are no different than any of us when it comes to sentience and suffering" "But animals eat animals" "Well... Yea, but that is not a justification to cause unnecessary suffering yourself" Whether we are morally better than someone else...
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    Basic principles of ethics

    I have read that book, and there are a huge amount of errors, fallacies,... in it. I intended to write a comment on it, but don't have time yet. I love the other ideas of Lierre Keith (feminism, ecology,...), but on veganism she is almost completely wrong.
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    Basic principles of ethics

    sentient beings are more important than non-sentient beings, yes, because I gave 4 arguments why sentience is important. I do agree however that we should also grant non-sentient living beings some rights; that is why I included principle 2.
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    Basic principles of ethics

    that's why I want to share my ethics it's like in history; there was a time that the majority of those in power supported slavery. But that could be changed, and so there is hope that people can change now as well so that only a small minority continue violating rights. I was not refering to...
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    Basic principles of ethics

    how? By using empathy (put yourself in the position of the others) or doing thought experiments of impartiality (such as the veil of ignorance of John Rawls: imagine that you don't know who you will be on earth; you don't know what you would like, which species you belong to, what mental...
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    Basic principles of ethics

    Is it wrong to feel attached to members of your own ethic group or race? I'd say yes, if that means you don't give other individuals the rights that they deserve. What you do is highly arbitrary: why the species and not the population (race), family, order, class,...? There are so many...
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    Basic principles of ethics

    why do you not say: eating member of your own family (great apes), order (primates), class (mammals) or whatever? What's so special about species? and they are still primates, still mammals,... Do you mean homo sapiens when you use the word people? no (see thing between brackets in third basic...
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    Basic principles of ethics

    we have more than 10.000 vegan recipies. Don't tell me that non of them are really delicious. You would only miss the texture of meat. But there are vegan sausages that are as tasty as meat. there has been done some experiments about taste preference and prejudice. It appears that meat eaters...
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    Basic principles of ethics

    what are the characteristiscs of "people"? Do you mean intelligence etc...? Are mentally disabled persons also people? Or do you mean Homo sapiens? But what is so special that all and only homo sapiens have? What is the relevance of the species boundary? I can give 4 arguments why the species...
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    Basic principles of ethics

    not really. It is a combination of consequentialist ethics, virtue athics, ethics of care, deontology. the only epicurian part is in the first principle, it's focus on well-being
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    Basic principles of ethics

    My moral project consists of trying to articulate my moral intuitions into a consistent set of ethical principles that form the basis of an ethical system of ecological justice. Below are the eight most important principles of my ethics. 1) A just distribution of quality of life. Maximize...
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