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Originally Posted by Susan9608  And if it's okay to eat cows or pigs - no matter how much you respect them and their right to not suffer - then hey, why not eat your children? As long as they have a swift and painless death? What's the difference? |
In fact, there is no real difference on a purely moral level for me. Many animals cannibalize their children. That's part of nature's cycle, too. I don't think humans should eat their children because it's not our social model. If we had a different social model where we controlled our excess population by eating extra children or ate our dead rather than burying them, it might be okay. I can conceive of such a model, but I don't want it. I haven't been socialized that way.
So really, the difference is in me, not in the life itself. I don't like to eat things I love. And I don't like to eat other humans. I haven't learned a social model where it's okay to do that. I have ingrained taboos.
But knowing I don't like to eat the things I love is part of why I understand your viewpoint so well. Because yes, I do think plants and animals are different (both life, but very different), and I can see how animals are more lovable. I'm sorry my viewpoint sickens you. I can see why you would think it's a rationalization, but these things I've been discussing are actually quite sacred to me. But like I said before, it's okay that you don't want to understand. It's even okay that you are judging me to be like the person in the satire without wanting to understand. I respect your decision.