In Lozito v. New York City a judge ruled that police had no duty to protect victims in an active stabbing on the subway while they (the police) were hiding from the perpetrator. It was a state supreme court case in a different state, but my impression is it’s not uncommon for state judges to refer to similar cases in other states

I want to agree but I think armed resistance is often necessary as well

Do you think his assassination would be morally in addition to strategically wrong?

People use words in varied ways to make rhetorical points and get people to consider things they might not have otherwise. Oh no! I’m sorry that cognitive dissonance is stressful

We are the ones with the social system allowing for moral frameworks to guide our decisionmaking. Cheetahs aren’t moral agents … Plus, they are obligate carnivores anyway (which is why your cat should not be deprived of meat)

please act in good faith or let me know that you’re not interested in doing so

There are no creatures with souls. But no, I wouldn’t say keeping a cat in general is immoral. There are definitely ethical concerns around things like kitten breeding mills and letting cats roam around outdoors, though

Using linguistic prescriptivism to shut down an argument and calling it “the truth” and “reality” to avoid thinking about what somebody means when they say a word is… certainly something

You said they were morally equivalent when you called it murder

I didn’t, actually

and you said it again just now

I didn’t, actually

Why does killing an animal for food carry any moral weight?

Because humans aren’t special unique beings with souls that make us the only ones with moral worth. Many animals are capable of suffering and emotion.

Cheetahs don’t get any flak for hunting caribou.

We are the ones with the social system allowing for moral frameworks to guide our decisionmaking. Cheetahs aren’t moral agents. And if they are, they follow cheetah morality. Plus, they are obligate carnivores anyway (which is why your cat should not be deprived of meat)

whether or not we can live without meat (we can), we certainly can’t live without plants. Even if you eat only meat, you depend on plants (and roughly 10x as much) in a lower trophic level. There is currently no way to avoid starving to death or dying of malnutrition without harming plants

pedantry is an incredible argumentative strategy. Truly unstoppable. Why think critically when you can read a dictionary instead?

over a hundred Democrat congresspeople boycotted the speech. The republicans had their staff sit in to make the crowd look full

you could also just be stupid

yes

frogs

lol okay dude

When did I say that? My statement points out that rituals to make yourself feel better about killing an animal do not change that animal’s experience of being killed or the moral weight of that action

The “entertainment” here I believe refers to the pleasurable experience of eating the animal as food. Since it’s not out of necessity

I’m sure that comforted Biggun while he was murdered by his friend

we can’t live without plants

She was crying about her let’s go brandon merch being dragged away, right?