Artemis

Again, it's not recent...

So we should just do away with morality completely because some people are jerks?

I hear millennials by and large wear shoes and brush their teeth... is that also generational then?

"Ought implies can," so, yes. Baseline necessity would be something that otherwise would seriously impact your health or life. Please don't start tell...

I'm glad you're having fun. But you're still wrong. A generation liking something that's been around for millennia does not make it generational.

None of these are philosophical or logical arguments for your case. Do I really need to point out to you that the number of people committing an immor...

A recent uptick in popularity doesn't make it generational... Like I said, history is rife with it.

Those are two different statements. The latter does not follow from the former. Faulty logic (if that were the case here, which it is not) does not eq...

Seems that way to you only because you seem to be resisting understanding the basics of causality. But let's say you're right about not being directly...

There is nothing inherently untouchable about what is "human." But that's the one of the points I've been trying to get across. Belonging to a group m...

I agree. Like professing a belief or non-belief in a pink invisible unicorn would make no sense either. It's merely useful terminology in a society wh...

Cult : "a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object." That's not veganism. You can claim that vegans a...

That's like saying someone who shoots another person is only responsible for pulling a trigger, and is not responsible for his or her death. Actions h...

Seems to be a trend when this topic is brought up. https://www.instagram.com/p/BEoVzRQxXDl/

How do you come to that conclusion?

I would. I haven't seen that. I've mainly seen him defending beliefs with reason and evidence and therefore arriving at sound moral conclusions.

You can believe you are a pink unicorn too if you want. Doesn't make it true.

Justify means "to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right." Since you are trying argue that buying/eating meat is okay, you are just...

I'll quote for you from a piece that I read recently by philosopher Jeff McMahan (just ignore the part about carnism and apply it to human procreation...

Isn't worry about one's current mental state an emotion and a negative one at that? In any case, it doesn't sound much like nirvana to me, since you'r...

It's hard to understand how someone can't understand that... but it's a fun exercise to try and find the best way to explain it!

As a paying consumer, you are participating in the whole process. You cannot simply wipe your hands of responsibility when you know part of the proces...

I'm not trying to actively ridicule anyone as much as I am pointing out the ridiculous conclusions some people try to defend when it's about animal ri...

Yes it does. When you buy a product, you are paying for all of the services that went into making that product the way it is. In the case of a chair, ...

There's nothing wrong with eating an animal per se. It's killing or harming an animal that's wrong. And it's the same reasons I have for not kicking m...

I never said pain was the only source of suffering. Though it is obviously a major source of it for most people capable of it.

Everything. If intelligent beings couldn't suffer, then hurting them wouldn't be a problem.

Participating in, or at least not even attempting to extricate yourself and your actions from, the active and ongoing suffering of billions of animals...

I know. I guess what I don't understand then is how you can claim to be okay with doing something you can't really defend. Since, if your gut feeling ...

So.... basically, you have no idea what the actual markers of difference would need to be between humans and animals?

At least you're trying to be consistent, even if I think you might just be biting the bullet here! However, what if we tweaked the above scenario just...

That sounds contradictory to me. Your first sentence seems to be claiming that intelligence is not the marker that makes killing permissible. Your sec...

Generally, yes. But not all humans are. Which means, if merely intelligence is your marker, that those humans would be fair game to torture and/or kil...

I have. But you haven't shown that there is a significant difference that would make killing animals acceptable. If you're talking about humans in gen...

So how can you claim that there is a significant difference if you don't know what it is? Or are you admitting to a mostly unexplored and possibly jus...

I'm glad you're trying to give this some thought--really I am. But I don't think your snark or portraying our argumentation in such a negative light a...

Yes, but I've been also understanding you to be agreeing with him: So, again, I put to you the question, what marker of intelligence do all humans pos...

What exactly is that level? What capacities do all humans possess that no cow does?

Only by being inconsistent. And what intellectual capacity does an infant possess that you think a pig doesn't?

Well, exactly because that is ludicrous we have to do the opposite: eat neither animals nor people. It's what your logic leads to, whether you intende...

Some of the persons I've worked with were much less capable than a chicken, since their disabilities kept them in the mental and physical state of inf...

To me that just seems to be a matter of difference in semantics. My same argument applies. If you exclude animals from certain types of treatment, you...

What exact mental capacity does a being at minimum need to deserve moral status according to you? Because if you draw the line to exclude all nonhuman...

That only seems wrong to someone who is so against the value of non-human animals that equating them in any way to humans is to denigrate human status...

Once again, you are assuming the same pessimistic outlook for everyone. Well, everyone doesn't share that view of life, including me. I know that's no...

The fallacy is technically a complex question. But anywho, it's not necessarily committing this fallacy just because it assumes something to be true. ...

True enough. But I would argue it is more appropriately reasonable to care about being safe from bodily harm than to care about footwear aesthetics. W...

Being appropriately moved by reason often entails just that... I'm not sure I understand how you understand the word appropriate if not entailing that...

Buddhists like candy just fine Here's a video of the dalai lama giving candy to a kid: https://youtu.be/7YX7npkQSlA

I'll answer you in order: -Nothing needs to be started. But it also doesn't need not to be started. -Yes, there are a multitude of experiences I hope ...