• Zozano@aussie.zone
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    11 months ago

    Forget rights.

    What ethical foundation permits someone to kill animals when they don’t need to?

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      11 months ago

      animals are killed all the time out of convenience or by accident or for profit. it’s so common that i think a justification must be made that it is immoral.

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          11 months ago

          i think it’s amoral, actually. and a phenomenon being so ubiquitous is a good indicator of amorality, even if it is not a guarantee.

          edit: do you have an argument that killing non-human animals is not moral?

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            11 months ago

            They are sentient beings, killing them without need is immoral since it’s causing pain for the sake of it.

            I don’t think it’s wrong to kill an animal for sustenance but it should be done in the most humane way possible and factory farming is the complete opposite of that.

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              11 months ago

              They are sentient beings, killing them without need is amoral since it’s causing pain for the sake of it.

              did you mean immoral here?