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Re:The Case Against Octopus Farming by lprubin on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @09:59PM (#20631400)
I think then the discussion would be around why only minimizing suffering for humans. If minimizing suffering is a good thing, why is there not also value in minimizing suffering for all beings that can suffer?
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Re:The Case Against Octopus Farming by spdionis on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @12:43AM (#20632032)
Because there's no pleasure in that for humans?

Of course that becomes wrong if many humans embrace the idea that minimizing suffering for animals is a good thing. At that point you would also be increasing the humans' "moral/ethical pleasure" in a kind of self fulfilling way. But there's no reason for this to happen except human hubris.

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