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Originally Posted by SecretMethod70
Ah, see, you're an ethical vegan then? That's part of why we differ, because I find the ethical argument, by far, the least convincing of any. Tell a tiger how it's unethical to kill and eat an antelope. We're animals too after all.
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Should we also tell a tiger how it's unethical to let mothers rear young on their own? Or to kill another's young to make the female more receptive to having yours? It's an odd thing, turning to tigers to teach morality and ethics. Actually, it's outright nonsense, if I might say so.
Yes, we're animals, but I kind of like the idea of human ethics, don't you?
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No one is ever going to make me feel bad about killing animals, and it's the same for many, many other people. Nothing wrong with being relatively clean and humane while doing it, but I have no problem eating Bessie the Cow no matter how beautiful her dark brown eyes are.
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Ah, so why didn't you just leave the tiger out of this then? This is what it comes down to: when it comes to food production, you will never feel bad about playing a role in the suffering of animals.
I will admit I feel guilty when I think about my own participation.