wishIwasSalludon
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Is it unethical to kick a kitten to death? The answer is no actually.
We can demonstrate this from two things.
1. There is a large consensus that value of an organism should not be based on superficial characteristics.
Elaboration:
Yes lookism exists but we largely acknowledge it to be a bad thing, if you were to ask someone if a ugly man is as valuable as a male model pretty much 100% of people would say yes.
2. Most people are not vegan
Elaboration:
not really much to say on this point.
The reason most people would give for kicking a kitten to death being wrong would be the fact that it is a cruel action. But far greater amounts of animal cruelty is experienced on farms(animals having their throats slit, being packed in overcrowded barns wallowing in their feces, being forcibly impregnated so humans can harvest their milk). That is just the tip of the iceberg btw.
Now you cant say that its wrong because kittens are cute because we have already established that the value of an organism is not based on looks.
The final objection could be that we do these for some goal(to harvest milk, meat etc). But we are perfectly capable of living without these things, the only reason you choose not to is the fact life is more pleasurable with these things.
So if pleasure is enough justification than the pleasure one might get from kicking a kitten to death is also enough justification.
Conclusion:
fuck these little shits
@imontheloose @Mainlander
We can demonstrate this from two things.
1. There is a large consensus that value of an organism should not be based on superficial characteristics.
Elaboration:
Yes lookism exists but we largely acknowledge it to be a bad thing, if you were to ask someone if a ugly man is as valuable as a male model pretty much 100% of people would say yes.
2. Most people are not vegan
Elaboration:
not really much to say on this point.
The reason most people would give for kicking a kitten to death being wrong would be the fact that it is a cruel action. But far greater amounts of animal cruelty is experienced on farms(animals having their throats slit, being packed in overcrowded barns wallowing in their feces, being forcibly impregnated so humans can harvest their milk). That is just the tip of the iceberg btw.
Now you cant say that its wrong because kittens are cute because we have already established that the value of an organism is not based on looks.
The final objection could be that we do these for some goal(to harvest milk, meat etc). But we are perfectly capable of living without these things, the only reason you choose not to is the fact life is more pleasurable with these things.
So if pleasure is enough justification than the pleasure one might get from kicking a kitten to death is also enough justification.
Conclusion:
fuck these little shits
@imontheloose @Mainlander
