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Re: Can anyone argue that omnivorous diets are actually more ethical than vegetarian? [Re: Icelander]
    #9344805 - 12/01/08 03:12 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

Unwarranted generalizations.  How can you speak for most people?

But allowing this assumption, I still don't think that the issue is a matter of complexity.  Which is easier to kill; a hamster or a giant squid?  Familiarity is a key factor here; along with the issue of which animals have been domesticated and have a ritual history of human use.  Complexity is an oversimplification that exhibits no significant correlation to ethical wrong-ness: you would probably feel no qualms killing a human who had just murdered your significant other, for instance.


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Re: Can anyone argue that omnivorous diets are actually more ethical than vegetarian? [Re: deCypher]
    #9344813 - 12/01/08 03:13 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

How can you speak for most people?


I'm old, I've talked to them.


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Re: Can anyone argue that omnivorous diets are actually more ethical than vegetarian? [Re: Icelander]
    #9344826 - 12/01/08 03:14 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

What's cracking, Methuselah?


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Re: Can anyone argue that omnivorous diets are actually more ethical than vegetarian? [Re: deCypher]
    #9344838 - 12/01/08 03:15 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

"Twas ever thus"


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Re: Can anyone argue that omnivorous diets are actually more ethical than vegetarian? [Re: Irdamage]
    #9344844 - 12/01/08 03:16 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

Agreed :thumbup:

Ethics are preference and apply only to the individual.


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Re: Can anyone argue that omnivorous diets are actually more ethical than vegetarian? [Re: Bernackums]
    #9344851 - 12/01/08 03:17 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

:nonono:

Jesus speaks for all people, didn't you know?  And are you saying that whatever I do must be right if it feels right?


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Re: Can anyone argue that omnivorous diets are actually more ethical than vegetarian? [Re: Icelander]
    #9344985 - 12/01/08 03:37 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

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Icelander said:
"Twas ever thus"




Hear ye, hear ye, for thy Icelander cometh.


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Re: Can anyone argue that omnivorous diets are actually more ethical than vegetarian? [Re: deCypher]
    #9344990 - 12/01/08 03:38 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)



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Re: Can anyone argue that omnivorous diets are actually more ethical than vegetarian? [Re: deCypher]
    #9345342 - 12/01/08 04:33 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

And are you saying that whatever I do must be right if it feels right?

I'm saying morals and ethics are subjective to each person, my right and wrong is different from yours. That is another of the many things I dislike about Christianity, it implies a universal moral system.


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Re: Can anyone argue that omnivorous diets are actually more ethical than vegetarian? [Re: Bernackums]
    #9345356 - 12/01/08 04:35 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

So you're fine with my raping a baby so long as I deem it to be right?


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Re: Can anyone argue that omnivorous diets are actually more ethical than vegetarian? [Re: deCypher]
    #9345376 - 12/01/08 04:39 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

He never said this dude.:crazy2: He said ethics are subjective and personal. He may not like yours but there are no god given rules about it.

We can agree on a set of morals and laws but not everyone would choose them if they were in charge.


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Re: Can anyone argue that omnivorous diets are actually more ethical than vegetarian? [Re: Epigallo]
    #9345636 - 12/01/08 05:18 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

No diet can be more ethical than another as long as you take responsibility for it and own it.


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Re: Can anyone argue that omnivorous diets are actually more ethical than vegetarian? [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #9345665 - 12/01/08 05:22 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

The Dahmer Diet is great for losing fat.


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Re: Can anyone argue that omnivorous diets are actually more ethical than vegetarian? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #9345704 - 12/01/08 05:27 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

You think that would be healthy? With all of the trash most people eat? Now Icelander eats a good solid diet....an organic one at that, but I would bet he would be too stringy.


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Re: Can anyone argue that omnivorous diets are actually more ethical than vegetarian? [Re: Epigallo]
    #9345742 - 12/01/08 05:31 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

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bradley said:
That's a magical scenario, it doesn't make sense. The brain is big for a reason; atoms have certain size, molecules have certain sizes, and cells certain sizes. You can't possibly shrink it.




It's just an ethical thought experiment, but I'll drop it because the lizard-cockroach comparison works as well.

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I have had one cockroach and one lizard in my apartment. The cockroach was bigger. They both inhabited the same space, and were equally inconvenient. I killed the cockroach, but put the lizard outside even though it was I could have just as easily killed it. I myself made a value judgment; how can you say there is "no value judgment to be made"? A lizard is more complex, and yes, closer to us, because we are on top of the biological hierarchy, and we can rightfully assess that maybe one organism deserves a little better treatment than the other. I mean, have you ever taken an antibiotic? How did you make the value judgment that you were more important than the bacteria??




I don't think you (or if you did, I don't think most people do) really made an ethical value judgment; rather you were disgusted by the stigmatized cockroach but admiring of the lizard - maybe the lizard is more fun to observe because of its complexity, but does that give you the ability to rank how deserving of good treatment it is?

We use antibiotics without even thinking of them as life because of how conveniently and invisibly they serve us. We don't weigh the value of bacterial life, just do as best serves us, and we continue doing this until we see something behaving like us, which makes some people a little queasy.

In fact one might ethically argue with more strength against eating only plants, in that plants have no capacity for observable reaction to instant death - it's less fair to them (and xenophobic) to deem their deaths as acceptable just because they are more alien to our consciousness and supposed lesser beings.


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Re: Can anyone argue that omnivorous diets are actually more ethical than vegetarian? [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
    #9345746 - 12/01/08 05:31 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

A benefit of age.


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Re: Can anyone argue that omnivorous diets are actually more ethical than vegetarian? [Re: Icelander]
    #9345764 - 12/01/08 05:33 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

A few days in a crock pot might help.


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Re: Can anyone argue that omnivorous diets are actually more ethical than vegetarian? [Re: deCypher]
    #9345899 - 12/01/08 05:51 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

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So you're fine with my raping a baby so long as I deem it to be right?




I don't know if you had this in mind, but this reminds me of excerpts from The Sayings of Ayatollah Khomeini:

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A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby.  However, he should not penetrate vaginally, but sodomising the child is acceptable.  If a man does penetrate and damage the child then, he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life.  This girl will not count as one of his four permanent wives and the man will not be eligible to marry the girl's sister...  It is better for a girl to marry at such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband's house, rather than her father's home.  Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven.




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It is not illegal for an adult male to 'thigh' or enjoy a young girl who is still in the age of weaning; meaning to place his penis between her thighs, and to kiss her.




The first time I read them, they were so ridiculous that I laughed aloud, just imagining this highly-respected world leader, using sterile language to create these arbitrary rules to justify his desires.


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Re: Can anyone argue that omnivorous diets are actually more ethical than vegetarian? [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
    #9345936 - 12/01/08 05:56 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

If we are to believe that killing vegetables is less immoral than killing animals, then there has to be somthing which distinguishes them which makes the killing right in one case, and wrong in another. 

One might say plants do not suffer as animals do.

To that one might say, what is suffering?  Are not all animals destined for death?  Do we know if plants do not suffer?  Perhaps plants do suffer, but we are unaware of how to read their responses to pain and suffering.

Furthermore, how do we know animals suffer?  Is there any way to confirm that they do?  Would not the claim that animals suffer be equally unprovable as saying that plants suffer?

So with that said, how can we know what is best?  Well, I think it would make sense to believe that the optimal diet for our species would be one which would fulfill three things, our appetites, our emotions, and our reason.

As for appetites, our diet is best when it fulfills all of the criteria for keeping us fit and healthy.  Vegetarian diets can achieve this, but many take some getting used to to say the least.  Our teeth are unlike the teeth of many purely herbivorous animals, and are well suited for a range of applications, including eating poultry, meat, and seafood.

In terms of emotions, it is enjoyable to have a diet that satiates the palate, as well as one which fulfills what desires one may have.  Not everyone desires to be a Buddhist monk, and there is much enjoyment to be had for some who partake in meat, moose in particular is somthing I had today, very good, try it and break your vegan ways the happy way.

In terms of reason, our diet needs to be feasible to fulfill.  The most feasible diet would have the least overhead (in terms of land, waste, and operating cost), and the most reward (in terms of people fed, safe operations).  I would argue that an omnivorous diet provides the widest range of options in adverse conditions.  In the case that a season of growing would fail, omnivores would outlive those morally opposed to eating non-vegetative material.  The most versatile always prevails over the specialized in the face of adversity.

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Re: Can anyone argue that omnivorous diets are actually more ethical than vegetarian? [Re: zannennagara]
    #9345944 - 12/01/08 05:56 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

"If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, a ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrement become impure and even their milk may no longer be consumed.  The animal must then be killed as quickly as possible and burned." :shocked::shocked:


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