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Originally Posted by Dbass
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It is not true that we know someone feels pain because they express an aversion to pain. There is hard physical evidence, based on nerve patters, that some animals feel pain more acutely than others. The fact that they do feel pain is unfortunate, but there are increasinly humane means of killing them.
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Yes. Not all animals feel the same amount of pain given the same stimulus. But that does not change the fact that they do feel pain, and as such we should not mistreat them.
To use the racism analogy once more; if some particular race were shown to process pain in a somewhat less severe manner than others, would that justify putting them into slavery, and mistreating them in whatever manner we choose?
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The fact that eating meat is natural does make it good. Vegetarians and vegans are required to supplement their diet (or get sick) and this means that they would be unable to survive in nature.
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But the point is that we are
now in a possition to abandon meat eating. We have vitamin supplements and the like, and so we should use them.
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The idea that men might be naturally dominant over women is irrelevant, because both must survive in order for the species to survive, and people and meat animals are similarly codependant. If predator species were wiped out, prey would die out because of high competition for resources.
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Most animals would survive just fine in an environment without humans. There are plenty of other "natural" predators around for an equilibrium to be found.