Making factory farmed eggs available to customers isn’t objectively ethical. An appeal to choice only works if the choice decreased the amount of suffering that there is in the world.
Since that appears to not be the case, then you need to find another angle. Maybe factory farmed eggs decrease the amount of suffering in the world because egg eaters can eat more eggs for less money? Even if that were the case, that’s only a small amount of suffering that was removed from the world that is outweighed by the suffering of factory farmed chickens. Moreover, egg eaters can still explore other foods. So you’d need to do show the data.
Basing morality off choice in and of itself isn’t viable. Just because something causes a decision state does not magically make that thing moral or immoral. You also run into problems when basing morality off of choice like the libertarians who want to destroy the government because regulations technically cause more harm today than ever before. Basing morality off of choice is a moralistic fallacy and frankly dualistic.
Taking choice into account does matter though since choice affects the amount of suffering there is in the world. For example, you can choose to avoid causing agony. But that doesn’t make the choice good in and of itself, only good instrumentally so, since it has caused a decrease in the amount of suffering.
Making factory farmed eggs available to customers isn’t objectively ethical. An appeal to choice only works if the choice decreased the amount of suffering that there is in the world.
Since that appears to not be the case, then you need to find another angle. Maybe factory farmed eggs decrease the amount of suffering in the world because egg eaters can eat more eggs for less money? Even if that were the case, that’s only a small amount of suffering that was removed from the world that is outweighed by the suffering of factory farmed chickens. Moreover, egg eaters can still explore other foods. So you’d need to do show the data.
Basing morality off choice in and of itself isn’t viable. Just because something causes a decision state does not magically make that thing moral or immoral. You also run into problems when basing morality off of choice like the libertarians who want to destroy the government because regulations technically cause more harm today than ever before. Basing morality off of choice is a moralistic fallacy and frankly dualistic.
Taking choice into account does matter though since choice affects the amount of suffering there is in the world. For example, you can choose to avoid causing agony. But that doesn’t make the choice good in and of itself, only good instrumentally so, since it has caused a decrease in the amount of suffering.