no attempt to justify meat-eating here; just pointing out utilitarian inconsistency.
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The difference is that wild animals have freedom, even if objectively worse conditions. Same reason we have
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It probably depends on the personality of the animals and the individual circumstances...
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still one could stop eating our genetical cousins, wild or not
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We've domesticated the animals we could, the rest seem to have made their preference clear, no? Slavery rationalized
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Tomasik has a twitter account -
@reducesuffering - and a website with his essays: http://reducing-suffering.org/Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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wonder how they quantify farmed animal suffering.. All the pigs w no tails so others can't bite them off.. Hens w no beaks.. Etc
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Good until the end. Difference between killing and allowing to die: farming vs. allowing to suffer. (Not vegetarian myself.)
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just rebutting the privation claim; see my comment on Rolf's original post.
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@silvervvulpes are they using the same metric of "worse" that we apply to analyses of domesticated humans, too? - End of conversation
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