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Originally Posted by Ourcrazymodern?
If cows could conceptualize they wouldn't be letting us eat them, or even milk them.
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Authoritatively stated, but based on what observable facts?
Perhaps in a dairy cow (
Bos taurus), we are dealing with a highly intelligent, emotionally sophisticated and "religiously pious" (how is this to be refuted???) creature whose sole purpose and life's devotion is to be devoured by others. You might be aware, for example, that the sole purpose in the life cycle of the male black widow spider (
Latrodectus mactans) is to be mated with a female black widow spider, after which she eats his head off; whether under duress or willingly, we as observers might never know, but it happens every time. While this in itself might not be definitive proof of "divinely preprogrammed intentions", can it really be accurately dismissed?
And how do you not know that cows don't take some form of pleasure - some form of pleasure - from having their milk glands fondled? Does not both the male and female human being derive pleasure from the manipulation (oral, manual, genital, electrical, culinary, etc) of their own mammary glands?
Thinking aloud here. Feel free to fill in with factual or even semifactual information. (I agree with you about the sparkling mind thing btw.)