What dire consequences? I certainly don't think "being unethical" is a dire consequence. How so? Is there some reason to believe that it's wrong to ea...
The first sentence argues for moral cognitivism and sets out the necessary and sufficient conditions for the (im)morality of killing. The second sente...
No, because I'm not saying that it is wrong to torture and/or kill something if and only if it reaches a certain level of intelligence. I'm only sayin...
You asked me for a marker of intelligence that all humans possess and that no cow possesses. I don't need to know of a such a thing to know that human...
That's not me agreeing with him. That's me explaining what I feel about eating certain animals and which trait I think has the greatest influence over...
Well, that is the is-ought problem. I don't think it's right to say that he's defined it into being. At the very least it describes most people's actu...
No, because if we are sufficiently intelligent then it is wrong to eat us, no matter how much more intelligent some other species is. Sap wasn't sayin...
No, I took him as saying that once something reaches a certain level of intelligence then it would be unethical to eat that thing. Humans have reached...
I think he’s arguing more about humans having reached a certain threshold that other animals haven’t. It’s not just about a comparison between species...
Looks like those people were refused entry on the grounds that they were inciting or planning to incite racial hatred. Is that a free speech problem? ...
You mean this? I took that as you saying that paying for the animal to be killed (indirectly) causes more harm to the environment. Is that not what yo...
Frank's reasoning isn't the same as yours. You said that it's wrong because it causes harm. Frank said that it's wrong because it supports an industry...
I wonder; what if I steal meat? I'm not contributing (even negligibly) to the meat industry. Or what if I buy it but don't eat it? If anything, your a...
No I'm not. I'm paying for an animal that's already been killed. My contribution doesn't cause more harm. My contribution is negligible. The same amou...
Me, as an individual, owning a slave directly causes harm to that slave. But me, as an individual, eating meat doesn't directly cause an animal or the...
So if I stop eating meat then the factories will shut down? Of course not. My individual meat-eating decision will do nothing to increase or decrease ...
I didn't say anything about 100%. I can argue that human brains are sufficiently similar to reasonably infer that our pains are sufficiently similar, ...
So animals are tortured and slaughtered for food because I eat meat? That doesn't seem to follow. So factory farms exist and harm the environment beca...
Because I only wanted to show how the meat-eater can be consistent in his position, given that that's what the OP asked for. Perhaps that there's a la...
They don't want to be factually wrong or absurd. They will argue that it's true (and so not absurd) that animals don't feel pain (or at least that the...
Sure. But you only asked how a meat-eater can be consistent in accepting the 3 moral pillars whilst eating meat. And they can be consistent by rejecti...
If we don't feel pain the same way then we can't empathise with each other. To empathise with someone is to understand and share someone else's feelin...
If they don't feel pain in the same way that we do then we can't empathise with them. If, when I try to imagine their pain, I'm actually imagining hum...
I don't. I'm not arguing that animals don't feel pain. I'm arguing that a meat-eater can "accept the 3 moral pillars while simultaneously eating anima...
Again, what is it like to be a bat? As Nagel argued, consciousness cannot be reduced to physicalism or behaviourism. A case can be made that brains an...
Someone who eats meat but adheres to your "moral trifecta" would reject the antecedent. Animals don't feel pain; or at least the kind of pain that the...
What is it like to be a bat? A case could be made (and is made) that there's nothing like being a bat (or other animal), or at least that it's not any...
It's also not a proof by exhaustion as it isn't given in your argument that egoism, malice, and empathy are the only possible things that moral behavi...
It's not about ousting a President for not being principled; it's about ousting a President for committing a crime. Perjury, and particularly obstruct...
I think the chief prosecutor had it right: "A failure to convict will make the statement that lying under oath, while unpleasant and to be avoided, is...
Impeached by the House for perjury and obstruction, acquitted by the Senate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Bill_Clinton Article I charg...
I didn't say that. I said that "the purpose of (some, at least) guns is for hunting or sport." It's not mutually exclusive. Even if I am wrong in sayi...
And this is as ridiculous as claiming that a fire extinguisher was designed to spray water rather than to put out fires because they don't put out fir...
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