Ethical to breed animals for its only purpose to be eaten?

[Twilight Hue]

What an ancient thread! Newbies really need to pay attention to thread dates before posting in them!

Lol. I think it's the trend of the generation to "remaster" retro threads.

Or,

there is a notable lack of creativity and as a result preferences lean toward lazy thinking because it's just to hard to come up with fresh subjects.

Eh....

 

[Revoltingest]

What an ancient thread! Newbies really need to pay attention to thread dates before posting in them!

Why?
Moldie oldies can be as interesting as new ones.

 

[Valjean]

Wow, this thread is a real old timer!
Breeding flora & fauna for the single purpose of eating them is not just ethical, it's also efficient & tasty.

A pretty broad denial of moral consideration, Revoltingest. On what do you base your ideas of moral obligation, if a pig and potato be morally equivalent?

 

[Revoltingest]

A pretty broad denial of moral consideration, Revoltingest. On what do you base your ideas of moral obligation, if a pig and potato be morally equivalent?

I deny nothing!
Moral obligations will vary from person to person.
I'm fine with eating animals bred to please my palate.
But I want them treated humanely & prepared wonderfully.

What is this based upon?
As with everyone else holding forth upon their values, mine are based upon personal values.

 

[Jainarayan]

I've seen the bumper sticker...
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals....I hate plants.

And... "If we're not supposed to eat animals why are they made of meat?"

 

[Valjean]

If a race of little green men landed and began breeding humans for food, would you have any problem with that?

 

[Revoltingest]

And... "If we're not supposed to eat animals why are they made of meat?"

God made pigs to store pork, sheep to store mutton, & cows to store beef.
If we weren't supposed to eat them, then pigs would be made of beaks, claws & tofu.

 

[Revoltingest]

If a race of little green men landed and began breeding humans for food, would you have any problem with that?

Why, yes, of course.
The predator-as-prey-to-another-predator relationship is not without irony.

 

[Jainarayan]

If a race of little green men landed and began breeding humans for food, would you have any problem with that?

Not at all. If we let that happen we deserve it.

 

[Valjean]

So the morality of the act depends on the relative level of technology?
How is this not might-makes-right?

 

[Revoltingest]

So the morality of the act depends on the relative level of technology?
How is this not might-makes-right?

Morality isn't something which has absolute or objective origins.
It's typically a consensus....an agreement about what's moral & what isn't.
What I say is moral is only the opinion (value) of those of us who agree it is.
Others will have other opinions. They're no more right or wrong than I am.

Parenthetical aside.....
This subjectivity is often presented to me by believers to argue that there must be a supreme
being.....one who can create an absolute & inerrant morality which gives comfort.
I don't buy it. Comfort doesn't confer truth.

 

[Yerda]

Morality isn't something which has absolute or objective origins.
It's typically a consensus....an agreement about what's moral & what isn't.
What I say is moral is only the opinion (value) of those of us who agree it is.

If child rape was agreed upon by all in a community to be moral, would it be moral to rape children?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

If child rape was agreed upon by all in a community to be moral, would it be moral to rape children?

Yes, it would be, as we would not perceive it as something that is immoral.

 

[Rick O'Shez]

If a race of little green men landed and began breeding humans for food, would you have any problem with that?

It's been going on for some time...McDonalds.

 

[Bunyip]

Anyone see Modest Mouse's music video for float on? it made me realize how barbaric it was. im gradually getting off eating meat. I find it hypocritical that we love animals and all, yet we eat them.

is it right? I would appriciate your thoughts!

Do you love plants?

 

[Yerda]

Yes, it would be, as we would not perceive it as something that is immoral.

How about the suffering children?

 

[Revoltingest]

If child rape was agreed upon by all in a community to be moral, would it be moral to rape children?

To those people who believe that, it would be moral.
(Unfortunately, there are some people like that. The subjectivity of it notwithstanding, I'd like to see'm in prison the rest of their lives.)
Sure, sure....it seem so incredibly obvious to us that child rape is immoral.
And we understand that we can reason this from shared premises (our values).
But ultimately, we've no objective basis for saying our values are absolutely true.

 

[Wirey]

I volunteer to be one of the guys who mates with babes on the alien food farm.

 

[Quagmire]

I don't have a problem with raising animals for food.

I have a big problem with the way it's usually done.

 

[Yerda]

But ultimately, we've no objective basis for saying our values are absolutely true.

I don't know what that means or if it matters.