I don’t think that some animals are capable of suffering
From what Thrust has said, I think it’s ambiguous between whether he cares he thinks animals can’t suffer and doesn’t care about them for that reason or he just doesn’t care about animal suffering as you describe. Or , more likely, he is in some middle state.
As to your second point, yes that’s the approach. And it seems largely that is what is happening when it comes up in the discussion here.
It’s kind of both. If a chicken is in pain, that doesn’t bother me that much. Also, I don’t think that chickens have the mental apparatus necessary to suffer like people can suffer.
Thrustvectoring said:
From what Thrust has said, I think it’s ambiguous between whether he cares he thinks animals can’t suffer and doesn’t care about them for that reason or he just doesn’t care about animal suffering as you describe. Or , more likely, he is in some middle state.
As to your second point, yes that’s the approach. And it seems largely that is what is happening when it comes up in the discussion here.
It’s kind of both. If a chicken is in pain, that doesn’t bother me that much. Also, I don’t think that chickens have the mental apparatus necessary to suffer like people can suffer.