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Originally Posted by Conan
So is a lion the same worth as a human also? What about the gazzelle he hunts?
Would you kill a tree to make your shelter? Would you step on a spider crawling to your leg? Being equals as regards the gift of life doesn't have to mean we stop the cycle of life and death.
I agree with what you said about the meat industry, but for different reasons as I can't follow the logic of yours. If man of equal worth to the
Lion, then man's method of "hunting" is equal to the lions. So that means the meat industry us "natural"?
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Sorry I will delete my other post, I think you edited.
The difference in our 'hunting' methods is that lions don't have the capacity or the options in abstaining from meat. The majority of humans, on the other hand, have the capacity to distinguish what is right and the option to abstain from meat and live a healthy life.
My apologies on using the word 'life' so broadly. I believe nonhuman animals should have an equal moral status to that of humans. Assuming this, I feel it is immoral to cause any animal, human or nonhuman, pain.