Re:How do dolphins choose their name?
by pawsforthought on Saturday July 09, 2022 @07:55AM
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Except, industrial agriculture and fisheries are nothing like subsistence predation.
I see no problem with hunter-gatherers’ predation of wildlife, provided they act in ecological balance with their environment (and they do tend to, out of self-preservation).
That’s not the world the vast majority of us live in though. We kill on the order of 1 trillion animals every year. We’re devastating Earth’s biosphere for the sake of an unnecessary dietary choice.
We’ll reap what we sow, sooner or later.
Re:How do dolphins choose their name?
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Saturday July 09, 2022 @10:53AM
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> once everyone fully realizes we're just normal animals, why not behave like them?
Lions hunt and eat pretty, they also regularly kill cubs when taking over a pride. Does that make infanticide acceptable?
This argument is at least as silly as the parent's.
The argument isn't convincing. It relies on a tired rethorical trick: invent some syndrome, claim it is the basis for something you don't like, then taint the syndrome. It doesn't convince. And in this case, the outcome will be negative: once everyone fully realizes we're just normal animals, why not behave like them? Meat's back on the menu.