This is why I don’t feel bad about eating pork and chicken. The only consistent morality is that We > Them in direct proportion of how close They are to Us. Perhaps we should minimize the difference in treatment, but the gradient always exists.
Given that “Bob” has chosen a standard of living that includes a coffee pot implies, using the transitive property (if a>b and b>c then a >c, where b is the environmental and human costs of coffee making) that the lives and dignity of an ant colony are worth less than his day-to-day comfort.
But, Bob might say, the ants are geographically closer than all the damage in Brazil. I acknowledge that geography does play a role in how “close” They are to Us, but it is generally accepted that locarion is the tiebreaker after Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species, to be considered alongside Tribe, DNA, and Personal Connection.
This is why I don’t feel bad about eating pork and chicken. The only consistent morality is that We > Them in direct proportion of how close They are to Us. Perhaps we should minimize the difference in treatment, but the gradient always exists.
Given that “Bob” has chosen a standard of living that includes a coffee pot implies, using the transitive property (if a>b and b>c then a >c, where b is the environmental and human costs of coffee making) that the lives and dignity of an ant colony are worth less than his day-to-day comfort.
But, Bob might say, the ants are geographically closer than all the damage in Brazil. I acknowledge that geography does play a role in how “close” They are to Us, but it is generally accepted that locarion is the tiebreaker after Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species, to be considered alongside Tribe, DNA, and Personal Connection.