vegetarian murder = murder?
Okay, some troll was asking where he could go to eat human. A vegan chimed in that eating meat of other animals was exactly the same, there was no moral difference, and murder = murder.
Now, I am not vegetarian, but I do have some friends that are, and I can respect their belief because through their diet they are trying to prevent what they view as unnecessary suffering. They say humans do not need to kill animals for furs because we can make much better winter cloths, humans do not need to eat meat because we know enough about diet to have healthy meals entirely from plants and fungi. But every one of them, if driving a car and faced with the choice of swerving right to avoid hitting person and instead hitting 2 deer vs swerving left to avoid the 2 deer and instead hitting one person, would ALWAYS choose to swerve right and hit the deer rather than the person.
They also think that the hunter/gatherers of the neolithic, or the frontiersman of the 1700s weren't evil or even immoral, they just didn't have the technology to make alternate choices. But we do now.
So, vegans, a bit of an informal poll.
Which statement do you MOST agree with?
1. 'reduce animal suffering as much as possible, but killing people is more wrong that killing animals'
2. 'animal = people...killing one is the moral equivalent of killing the other'
If neither of those are correct, please post a third option, but please post which one of the above is the least incorrect.
For those of you who choose the second answer please answer the following:
-when you drive do you go extra slow as to not kill bugs on your windsheild?
-when you walk do you make sure you never tread on an ant?
-because we have skin mites that die in the thousands when we shower (or bathe) how do you stay hygienic without killing?
For those who asked...if you don't swerve one way or the other you will hit BOTH the person AND the two deer.
As far as skin mites, yes, EVERYONE has them. There are many different types of mites that cause little or no harm. In fact most of our skin mites help us by eating dead skin AND by displacing harmful mites. Mites are animals. I don't see how someone can kill 10,000 animals every day and feel superior to the person who kills 10,001 animals because the second person has a cheeseburger.
For the person who says that they don't SEE the bug that his the windshield so that makes it okay, well what about the people who don't SEE the animal being slaughtered, just see the meat of an already dead animal to eat, what is the difference?
Finally for those who are saying that skin mites are different because those deaths are unavoidable just like stepping on ants are unavoidable..you could stop showering all together, or shower only once every 2-3 days. In may places