Arquibus:
This is another logically flawed argument. It says, essentially, that if we cannot remedy ALL the wrongs in the world at once, we should do nothing, and devoting our efforts to redressing any single wrong is a waste of time.
I say we can try to prevent people wrongly killing each other AND try to prevent the senseless slaughter of animals.
If it comes naturally to a pedophile to rape young children, would that be morally wrong, in your opinion?
You CAN do many things. You can rape, and steal, and murder. Does that mean you're "supposed to"? And does it mean you should? Or are those separate questions?
We've covered this rather silly argument earlier in the thread. Go read it.
Eating meat a moral issue when we kill each other for no reason at all? I find that difficult to swallow.
This is another logically flawed argument. It says, essentially, that if we cannot remedy ALL the wrongs in the world at once, we should do nothing, and devoting our efforts to redressing any single wrong is a waste of time.
I say we can try to prevent people wrongly killing each other AND try to prevent the senseless slaughter of animals.
It's one thing not to mistreat animals for no reason, but when is enough too much? Why would it be morally wrong for us to do something that comes naturally to us.
If it comes naturally to a pedophile to rape young children, would that be morally wrong, in your opinion?
I've heard people say that the human body is not designed to consume meat, that we are designed or evolved as herbivores and other crap like that. The fact is that if we weren't supposed to eat meat, we wouldn't be able to.
You CAN do many things. You can rape, and steal, and murder. Does that mean you're "supposed to"? And does it mean you should? Or are those separate questions?
In the meantime, to say that eating meat is unnecessary and it is cruel to animals, I would point out that plants are alive, and that they react to damage to themselves by growing differently, while some even actively protect themselves, so is it morally better to eat plants instead? It seems the same to me.
We've covered this rather silly argument earlier in the thread. Go read it.