It’s only wrong if you believe hurting other living things is wrong, it depends on your upbringing / mental framework and how you relate those between different species.
But I believe most people agree that the current way we mass produce meat and how we treat these animals is like a dystopian endgame. If humans were treated like that by a higher intelligence that would be extremely disturbing and cruel. We just accept it as we place the priority on a steak on our plate.
It is how it is, everyone is ignorant or a hypocrite in some parts of life. Good or bad are only subjective perspectives. But if you look at the harm we cause to other beings with eating meat and in what mechanistic way, that might be one of the things in 100 years we look back at and just can’t fathom.
You present that as a factual statement. Personally I don’t believe humans have souls either. We’re just biological constructs, just like animals. We are classified as animals even. But we have different beliefs and frames of reference here.
Perhaps it is then better to ask, does it matter in this discussion if they have a soul or not if they have the ability to experience suffering? Or does not having a soul in your viewpoint mean they cannot suffer?
It’s only wrong if you believe hurting other living things is wrong, it depends on your upbringing / mental framework and how you relate those between different species.
But I believe most people agree that the current way we mass produce meat and how we treat these animals is like a dystopian endgame. If humans were treated like that by a higher intelligence that would be extremely disturbing and cruel. We just accept it as we place the priority on a steak on our plate.
It is how it is, everyone is ignorant or a hypocrite in some parts of life. Good or bad are only subjective perspectives. But if you look at the harm we cause to other beings with eating meat and in what mechanistic way, that might be one of the things in 100 years we look back at and just can’t fathom.
Animals don’t have souls.
You present that as a factual statement. Personally I don’t believe humans have souls either. We’re just biological constructs, just like animals. We are classified as animals even. But we have different beliefs and frames of reference here.
Perhaps it is then better to ask, does it matter in this discussion if they have a soul or not if they have the ability to experience suffering? Or does not having a soul in your viewpoint mean they cannot suffer?
I am a human supremacist and I don’t care.