If it’s acceptable for humans to exploit other animals for food, clothing, labor, entertainment or experiments because we’re more intelligent than them, would it be equally acceptable for a superintelligent alien race with 10x the mental capacity as humans to do the same to us?

  • NotAPenguin@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    I grew up in the countryside, surrounded by farms and my family raised and slaughtered sheep, chickens, cows and more… and yet I can easily see that just because you provide someone with shelter and food it doesn’t make it okay to kill them for profit/taste.

    They don’t know their time on the earth is shortened by a couple of years.

    Same argument could be made about killing humans, they would have no idea after they died.

    They do know they’re not dying from horrific disease or consumed alive by predators. There’s this crazy idea that wild animals have better lives.

    I’ve said nothing about wild animals.

    Farm animals are not rescued from the wild, they are bred by the billions to be killed for profit, that is cruel.

    Actual privilege is thinking that you’re completely entitled to have living and feeling beings killed for your taste pleasure.

    This is how animals are actually treated: https://watchdominion.org/