on animism and the ethics of eating
Jun. 10th, 2016 12:30 pmI feel like I'd be hijacking this post of ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
niqaeli's if I were to expand on the thought I just had in the comments thereof.
Premise ofniqaeli's post: People who say it is morally unacceptable to eat animals because animals are people, who proceed to eat plants anyway, are engaging in the same morally unacceptable behavior (though with a different target) engaged in by people who say it is morally acceptable to abuse women, people of color, or autistic people: the behavior is to take a set of living beings and declare them not-people and their pain not-pain.
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But the thing is, we don't get to declare plants not-people whose pain is not-pain when even dealing exclusively with things atheist skeptics believe in we know plants feel pain. And food restrictions are very personal—even religious food restrictions are only applicable to those whose religious beliefs tell them the restrictions in question apply—and personal food restrictions have approximately fuck-all to do with what is and is not acceptable, morally or otherwise, for humans in general to eat.
niqaeli's if I were to expand on the thought I just had in the comments thereof.Premise of
niqaeli's post: People who say it is morally unacceptable to eat animals because animals are people, who proceed to eat plants anyway, are engaging in the same morally unacceptable behavior (though with a different target) engaged in by people who say it is morally acceptable to abuse women, people of color, or autistic people: the behavior is to take a set of living beings and declare them not-people and their pain not-pain.( cut for a 300-word definition and 700-word blockquote )
But the thing is, we don't get to declare plants not-people whose pain is not-pain when even dealing exclusively with things atheist skeptics believe in we know plants feel pain. And food restrictions are very personal—even religious food restrictions are only applicable to those whose religious beliefs tell them the restrictions in question apply—and personal food restrictions have approximately fuck-all to do with what is and is not acceptable, morally or otherwise, for humans in general to eat.
