The first argument I’ve heard mainly comes down to showing that there aren’t meaningful distinguishing factors between animals and humans, so that if you’re fine eating animals, you should also be fine eating humans under some circumstances.
Another argument I’ve heard is that if you accept eating animals, there’s really no reason you can’t abuse them or engage in bestiality. We already sexually violate them in different ways and abuse them physically, so if you’re uncomfortable with dog/bull fighting or bestiality, you should probably be similarly uncomfortable with supporting the meat industry
Finally, there’s just the probability aspect of this, where even if you’re 1% unsure that eating meat is wrong, that’s essentially equivalent to a 1% chance of an outcome with over 100 murders/rapes that you’ve contributed to, which is equivalent to more than one atrocity personally committed by you. It’s like if I had a pork company with no safety standards so 1% of the time you purchased my meat you were actually eating one of my employees
However, the striking counterargument to all of this that I can’t overcome is simply that morals aren’t real. They aren’t anything that can be measured or verified and any system to measure or verify them would be a moral assumption itself.
[Question] Is veganism morally correct?
The first argument I’ve heard mainly comes down to showing that there aren’t meaningful distinguishing factors between animals and humans, so that if you’re fine eating animals, you should also be fine eating humans under some circumstances.
Another argument I’ve heard is that if you accept eating animals, there’s really no reason you can’t abuse them or engage in bestiality. We already sexually violate them in different ways and abuse them physically, so if you’re uncomfortable with dog/bull fighting or bestiality, you should probably be similarly uncomfortable with supporting the meat industry
Finally, there’s just the probability aspect of this, where even if you’re 1% unsure that eating meat is wrong, that’s essentially equivalent to a 1% chance of an outcome with over 100 murders/rapes that you’ve contributed to, which is equivalent to more than one atrocity personally committed by you. It’s like if I had a pork company with no safety standards so 1% of the time you purchased my meat you were actually eating one of my employees
However, the striking counterargument to all of this that I can’t overcome is simply that morals aren’t real. They aren’t anything that can be measured or verified and any system to measure or verify them would be a moral assumption itself.