Re:World’s first octopus farm stirs ethical debate
by nefitty on Thursday February 24, 2022 @09:24PM
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Yes, excellently stated. That's precisely my original point. I intended to preemptively disarm the conversational decay that absolutes cause.
I think there is a place for that, for example art or activism, but when speaking directly to another human, absolutes seem to place a lot of people on their back foot in defense of their current established decisions.
Re:World’s first octopus farm stirs ethical debate
by Azek on Friday February 25, 2022 @12:17AM
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At risk of getting tedious here, the even-more accurate comparison would be "I'm gonna limit paying someone else to kick a dog from Tuesday to Sunday".
Since there actually exists real-life animal abuse in the case of paying for meat or any animal product ( including dairy ).
Re:World’s first octopus farm stirs ethical debate
by MathCodeLove on Friday February 25, 2022 @11:50AM
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I would think that's still not as accurate as the above examples. That implies a form of intended malice and wish to do harm at no personal gain. If the factory in which my car is manufactured happens to employ children that doesn't mean I'm paying for child labor - I'm paying for a car regardless of how it's produced. The attempt to shift the blame to the consumer here fallacious.
I don't have to view eating meat or driving my car an inherently immoral in order to recognize the objective negative ecological impact that those actions have, and to therefore want to engage in some form of harm reduction from time to time.