X are useful to us X can readily be made use of Therefore, it is right for us to use X I hope you aren't making that argument. Do you think that their...
If you are born against your will, does that negate any interests you might have once alive? Does that make ridiculous any argument that I ought to re...
Where did I suggest that domesticated animals are not animals? You said that "Without meat eaters there would be no animals on the land at all." I tri...
Humans are animals. Or do you subscribe to the idea that we have some special magical difference that makes our interests matter and theirs not, or le...
I forgot to address this. Even if all that were true, it wouldn't make it okay. It would be wrong even if we fed them a constant supply of pleasure dr...
It seems like it might make sense to avoid unnecessarily causing pain where it doesn't obviously serve a greater good. Am I being arbitrary if I choos...
There is something that I have often found puzzling that might reveal a problem for mind-brain supervenience. But it probably depends on mind-brain su...
Yes, pain often serves a beneficial function. Could it be that while pain is an evil, some pain is justified if it serves a greater good? Is suffering...
Since the following objection has a bit of substance, I'll address it. Without meat eaters (human meat eaters or carnivores in general?), there would ...
You might be surprised if you cared to talk to one. Sure, our position may not be as well justified as the pythagorean theorem, but it is at least as ...
Its mattering and badness don't depend on me knowing or caring. This situation is awful even if nobody else exists to know or not know about it. Even ...
I appreciate the attempt to clarify the matter for me. But what I am trying to get at is something a little different from I understand you to be addr...
Sure, it is rather arbitrary. But if you yourself are going to appeal to this concept in some way, you need to clarify what you mean by it and be cons...
I am not sure I accept the idea that an ought can never derive from an is. Let me explain. It is hard to see why an ought would follow from an objecti...
Okay, so all A are B, but not all B are A. That's fine. All dogs are mammals, but not all mammals are dogs. All good things are natural, but not all n...
premise 1: What is A is B. premise 2: X is A. conclusion: Therefore, X is B. This is a valid argument form. The conclusion follows. premise 1: What is...
I don't think it makes sense to argue that anything is good just because it is widespread in nature. It isn't at all clear why there would be any nece...
There are all sorts of other possible sources of moral guidance, reason for one. To argue that you know of no alternatives to nature as a source of mo...
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