Well, even if you just eat plants. There's somewhere where you have to start being indifferent to the lives of other beings, even if that's confined to certain contexts. I mean, yeah, I don't enjoy causing fish pain or discomfort either. I don't even like killing bugs. Compassionate behavior should be encouraged, but by existing we necessarily cause suffering to other beings. In order to not go insane, we have to put up boundaries about what is acceptable or moral - so what are those boundaries and do they have any consistent foundations? capacity for continued suffering is, maybe, somewhere to start looking for consistent foundations.
"Don't cause needless suffering where you can help it" is a pretty solid baseline. People are talking about pets here -- there's a difference between catching and eating a fish vs keeping a fish in a cramped featureless tank where their only escape is an early death, stunted malnourished and miserable. Doing this to fish is not a necessary fact of our existence.
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How about mosquitos? What about trees?
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What do you eat?
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Well, even if you just eat plants. There's somewhere where you have to start being indifferent to the lives of other beings, even if that's confined to certain contexts. I mean, yeah, I don't enjoy causing fish pain or discomfort either. I don't even like killing bugs. Compassionate behavior should be encouraged, but by existing we necessarily cause suffering to other beings. In order to not go insane, we have to put up boundaries about what is acceptable or moral - so what are those boundaries and do they have any consistent foundations? capacity for continued suffering is, maybe, somewhere to start looking for consistent foundations.
"Don't cause needless suffering where you can help it" is a pretty solid baseline. People are talking about pets here -- there's a difference between catching and eating a fish vs keeping a fish in a cramped featureless tank where their only escape is an early death, stunted malnourished and miserable. Doing this to fish is not a necessary fact of our existence.
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