Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Xell101
Perputation of the human species.
|
Meat eating is not necessarry to achieve this end.
Quote:
|
Racism back in the day served a function, now it only creates internal strife we'd be better off without.
|
So, Hitler's aims were noble when he set out to reduce the strife within his country by getting rid of Jews and other groups, the presence of whom was causing an amount of social unease.
(Don't freak out on me for bring Hitler into the equation. It is a rare situation where it is a useful example to bring up).
With me, killing animals for food isn't morally inconsistent as you depicted. I don't care about a cow, or a chicken, I care about the ecosystems, life is good, but sometimes life eats life, we kill to live. I have no qualms with that, decimating ecosystems for the purpose of human advancement I have problems with.[/QUOTE]
But a racist could just as easily justify himself by asserting the (obvious) fact that "I just don't care about [insert racial epithet]! I don't want to wipe them all out though, (then who would tend my crops for pittance?)".