lavalamp comments on Unspeakable Morality - Less Wrong

27 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 August 2009 05:57AM

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Comment author: lavalamp 04 August 2009 04:22:16PM 1 point [-]

Ah, that makes your comment make sense. Obviously I know that peperoni is an animal product, but the pizza part threw me off, possibly because peperoni pizza is like the poster-child for foods that are supposedly bad for you.

I have no problem with the idea that modern factory-style living conditions for chickens, etc, are inhumane (and I personally buy cage-free, etc., both for that reason and because they apparently have more nutrients). But you seem to be suggesting that any killing of any animal for food purposes is immoral. So now I have to ask if you think it's evil for a lion to kill and eat an antelope?

Comment author: Tiiba 04 August 2009 04:46:53PM *  3 points [-]

If lions didn't eat antelopes, they would starve, and so would the antelopes when their burgeoning populations run out of food. Bad end. Pain, suffering, death.

Now, if lions could be made vegetarian, and antelopes could be made to use condoms... That'd be the perfect solution.