I think we should stop breeding farm animals ASAP. The living? 1) returned to wild 2) taken as pets & if not 1 or 2, then 3) killed humanely
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Replying to @AndrewGripp
Right. Would this reduce animal death and suffering at all or would it just absolve ourselves of responsibility for it and for them?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
We can't be too bluntly utilitarian. We don't have many obligations to wild animals. Liberating them absolves us of responsibility, I'd say.
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Replying to @AndrewGripp
OK, so this is an argument for liberating us from responsibility, not for reducing animal suffering & death. I'm more concerned abt latter.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @AndrewGripp
If pigs could have a council & demand their freedom & say they'd rather die free than live as prisoners on farms, I'd say they should do so.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @AndrewGripp
But as they can't, I'm more concerned about the suffering of animals we made dependant on us.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I am too. So there are two issues: (1) what to do with living dependent animals and (2) the die free/die well/never live trilemma.
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Replying to @AndrewGripp
And I think we've reached an impasse coz I'd go with die well & you with never live.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @AndrewGripp
It seems I am motivated by 'most pleasure/least suffering' and you by the rights of animals not to be exploited by humans. Both valid.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @AndrewGripp
If we were able to ensure that animals had pleasurable lives with least suffering & could do this without being in the control of humans...
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...we'd have a perfect solution. Its not an option. Tho individuals can adopt individual animals obviously & make it an individual solution.
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