Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium

Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by peteretep on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @09:19PM (#11493677)

    > how can slaughtering them
    > for food be considered
    > ethical

Humane slaughter that they don't see coming ... what's the issue? I would be more, rather than less, comforted to find out that one day I'll suddenly die painlessly, instantly and unawares, and am not too bothered if it's because someone plans to eat me

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Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by Falling3 on Thursday April 14, 2016 @01:49AM (#11494549)

Even if that someday is an incredibly small fraction of your natural life? Even as little as 1/100 of what you could live if you were well cared for? I take it that's not what you meant by "one day".

If we accept that animals are worthy of moral consideration, then unnecessarily harming them is unequivocally immoral.

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Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by peteretep on Thursday April 14, 2016 @01:58AM (#11494579)

I think if I wasn't going to see it coming, it wouldn't bother me while I was alive, and I'm not the kind of person who believes something will bother me when I'm dead.

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Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by tempestn on Thursday April 14, 2016 @03:20AM (#11494856)

You're saying that if you knew someone was going to kill you sometime in the near future, as long as you wouldn't see it coming, it wouldn't bother you? I expect you're in the minority on that.

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Re:Inky the octopus breaks out of New Zealand aquarium by brian_cloutier on Thursday April 14, 2016 @03:37AM (#11494908)

I believe your parent is arguing for a situation where they doesn't even know it'll be in the near future.

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