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Nattily dressed anarchists on bicycles I was going to go into how the simile to human slavery doesn't work since it implies that humans and non-humans are necessarily of equal ethical status, which probably isn't a tenable position. To be fair, when put under stress, the claim that all humans are of equal ethical status doesn't really hold up either (IRL trolley problems, like mass casuality triage decisions and the like, are the go to example). At the very least, opposition to grotesque animal abuse doesn't actually require such equality anyway. But I'll have to get my copy of Singer out, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution is almost finished loading, and I've only got an hour to play, and I'll probably not convince anyone anyway, so. edit: I quit early to tl;dr it - rubbing shampoo into a rabbit's eyes to test irritability, or electrifying the floor of a dog's cage to scientifically determine that it dislikes pain, is unethical. Killing a chicken to feed multiple hungry humans, in the absence of any alternative, or testing a viable treatment for a fatal disease on a monkey first, probably isn't. A consequentialist approach will probably be required to accept these statements. Alcantaria, Frieden-und Freudenland, Mount Seymour, Ruinenlust, and 5 othersLord Dominator, Uan aa Boa, Canaltia, Middle Barael, and Nation of ecologists |