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Re:Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years by Iv on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @11:35PM (#20826438)
I never understood that logic. I don't see why more animals (or humans) existing ought to be considered a good thing?
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Re:Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years by roenxi on Thursday August 29, 2019 @02:38AM (#20827222)
That isn't the core of the argument; the point is that there is no good outcome for most of those animals. The choice is exist, live and be slaughtered for food vs. never being born.

Not an enviable choice, but it confounds some of the simple ethical arguments for, eg, vegetarianism.

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Re:Vegan takeaway orders quadruple over past two years by Iv on Friday August 30, 2019 @05:25AM (#20837026)
But I don't understand how it is relevant to what we should do?

Our goal is to minimize the amount of suffering we are responsible of. In that respect it is obviously better to not breed animals than to breed them and make them suffer.

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