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Comment author: TimS 01 January 2012 05:55:33PM 1 point [-]

I'm not sure there's a causal relationship. If you met a cow in the wild that wanted to be eaten, I think it would be ethical to eat it.

But I strongly believe that creating such a cow would be unethical.

Comment author: daenerys 01 January 2012 06:01:53PM 5 points [-]

I agree. I think there is no difference between creating an intelligent cow that wants to be eaten vs. creating a human that tastes good, and wants to be eaten.