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Re:World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin (2018) by Razengan on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @05:49PM (#25215152)
> If that's good enough for all the other omnivores and carnivores in the food chain, it's good enough for humans.

If there’s a larger “food chain” on the interstellar scale where some intelligent species mass-consume others, would it be “good enough” for some aliens to farm humans like we do animals?

Re:World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin (2018) by zo1 on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @05:51PM (#25215169)
It's all good and well to argue about it while we're at the top of the food chain. No guarantee that'll always be the case, though.
Re:World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin (2018) by nkrisc on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @06:00PM (#25215248)
Sure. Though we'd probably mount an armed resistance to the idea, successful or not.

The animals on the farm are welcome to do the same if they don't like being farmed.

Re:World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin (2018) by krageon on Thursday November 26, 2020 @08:04AM (#25219678)
So you think you only deserve the right to live if you can resist me murdering you? What if you become crippled? You cannot resist me, armed or not. Therefore you are an old-time farm animal, mine to kill whenever I want.

I think that's an unhealthy stance to take towards life.

Re:World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin (2018) by cercatrova on Thursday November 26, 2020 @08:35AM (#25219873)
Yes. I've seen this alien argument used a lot by non-meat-eaters, as if it's some "gotcha". It is not. One can construct a sound and valid viewpoint that is consistent simply by saying that sure, I can eat animals that are lower in some quality than I am, such as sapience, but then if an eldritch alien with more sapience than me comes about, they are free to eat me.
Re:World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin (2018) by Razengan on Thursday November 26, 2020 @05:39AM (#25218732)
The fact that animals cannot mount a resistance makes our practices even more grim and morbid, not better.
Re:World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin (2018) by cygx on Thursday November 26, 2020 @06:33AM (#25219041)
Might makes right is a poor foundation for any moral framework, imo.
Re:World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin (2018) by missingrib on Thursday November 26, 2020 @02:48AM (#25217848)
This is satire?