how about not torturing and killing animals food? Sure, most people do it, but most people are crazy.
Yes, I know. That would be me calling you crazy.
EDIT: In fact, since most people value mammalian (and bird, and fish, to a somewhat lower extent) pain/life higher than bug pain/life … vegetarianism should be more important than not torturing bugs. Unless you meant from a psychological health perspective? Since people aren’t taking pleasure in the torture/death itself?
Unless you meant from a psychological health perspective? Since people aren’t taking pleasure in the torture/death itself?
Yes, the fact that most people don’t usually kill the animals with their hands but pay someone else to do so does affect my gut reactions (cf “Near vs Far”) -- but I think that’s a bug, not a feature.
It’s easier to ignore/rationalize it if you can’t see it, I think—I’ve heard stories of children growing up on farms who turned to vegetarianism when they learned where Fluffy went—so I suppose from a Virtue Ethics point of view it suggests they’re less likely to be a Bad Person.
Yes, I know. That would be me calling you crazy.
EDIT: In fact, since most people value mammalian (and bird, and fish, to a somewhat lower extent) pain/life higher than bug pain/life … vegetarianism should be more important than not torturing bugs. Unless you meant from a psychological health perspective? Since people aren’t taking pleasure in the torture/death itself?
Yes, the fact that most people don’t usually kill the animals with their hands but pay someone else to do so does affect my gut reactions (cf “Near vs Far”) -- but I think that’s a bug, not a feature.
It’s easier to ignore/rationalize it if you can’t see it, I think—I’ve heard stories of children growing up on farms who turned to vegetarianism when they learned where Fluffy went—so I suppose from a Virtue Ethics point of view it suggests they’re less likely to be a Bad Person.
In other words, yes, that’s a known bug.