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Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 23 October 2012 09:27:08AM 2 points [-]

I don't think it's perfectly all right to eat meat. And I consider battery farming to be an obscenity which I'd like to see outlawed.

And yet I do eat meat, guiltlessly, and not all of it is free-range ethics-meat.

It occurs to me that I might have trouble explaining this to some future ethicist, and I wonder if that might be the same sort of moral state that the Romans, say, were in.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 23 October 2012 10:44:10AM 4 points [-]

It occurs to me that I might have trouble explaining this to some future ethicist, and I wonder if that might be the same sort of moral state that the Romans, say, were in.

It's the same sort of moral state we're all in.

Comment author: MugaSofer 23 October 2012 01:33:36PM 4 points [-]

I mock you from the safety of my vegetarianism, while desperately downplaying who made my trainers.