It's beacuse a mutation of covid was discovered in minks. I'm sure they have already been added to the list of Victims of Communism. Pure hellworld. Fuck everyone who wears fur coats.
It's beacuse a mutation of covid was discovered in minks. I'm sure they have already been added to the list of Victims of Communism. Pure hellworld. Fuck everyone who wears fur coats.
fur is bougie for one, and has been at least passe for like, decades? I'm frankly shocked it's still a major industry.
but the mink cull was absolutely the right call and the only mistake they made/could make is not doing it faster (or not finishing it)
Yeah, but fur being bougie and passé really just means that people are ok condemning animal slaughter so long as they don’t personally enjoy the result. I’m just confused that so many people seem to think this is ok and morally consistent? Simultaneously thinking it’s ok to slaughter cows for a leather jacket but wrong to slaughter minks for a fur coat just seems like it should cause some cognitive dissonance or something. I don’t know, it might be just because I’m neurodivergent, and sometimes I struggle to understand how some people apparently are ok with not having a consistent ethical worldview in regards to animals.
There's more to the equation than 'animal die for human purpose'. The purpose and aim of the killer is something people interrogate. It's why they feel differently about a vet putting down a dog and someone beating one to death. A bougie product almost no-one has access to, which is a symbol of aristocracy doesn't seem a justifiable motive to these people, whereas eating probably does.
I don’t think that’s really a difference of intent, but of action. The real difference between a vet putting down a dog and dog being literally beaten to death is absolutely not the intent of the killer, it’s the suffering of the dogs. Even if both people had nothing but good intent for the dog (for example, my uncle beat his pet rabbit to death with a bat to “put it out of its misery” because he wrongly thought it would be instantaneous), the vet would still be the better one for not causing unnecessary suffering.
Whether an animal is slaughtered to make a luxury product or an affordable product is also not a difference of intent, but of action based on profit-seeking. And that still seems like such strange moral reasoning to me. Do people really just think: “Killing minks for fur coats is morally wrong because I can’t afford fur, but killing cows for leather jackets is fine because I can afford leather”? Like, that the suffering of the animals is only morally important if you don’t stand to personally benefit from it? And people are just ok with that, despite generally believing that “what personally benefits me” is absolutely not an acceptable way to assign moral worth? It’s just baffling to me.