syllogism comments on The Ethical Status of Non-human Animals - Less Wrong

9 Post author: syllogism 09 January 2012 12:07PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 15 January 2012 08:15:13AM *  0 points [-]

Why are animals food, though

What flavor of 'why?' are you after? The 'flavor' one seems most significant to me! It is also sufficient.

There is no problem with just not having an ethical problem with a behavior simply because you don't currently have any problem with a behavior, like the behavior, do not wish to self modify your ethics and are not persuaded by the ability of someone else to find some similarity between the behavior in question and some other behavior that you do have an ethical problem with.