Lemdro.id

-4 points

2 years ago

Personally, I just think the moral middle ground would be to be the person that slaughters and butchers the animals you eat. It would allow the most respect for all parties imo.

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chetradley@lemm.ee

8 points

2 years ago

The moral middle ground is to not kill animals (or pay someone to) if you don’t need to.

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3 points

2 years ago

I don’t know. That feels a bit off-center to me rather than middle considering one end of the spectrum is “kill nothing ever” and the other end is “How many endangered animals can I make extinct just for funsies.” If everyone killed what they ate themselves, manually, I bet we’d have a bunch more vegetarians hanging around.

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chetradley@lemm.ee

1 point

2 years ago

I think it’s morally neutral to ask why we kill animals. Do you kill the animals you eat?

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2 points

2 years ago

I agree that question is morally neutral. And not yet, I don’t, but that is the long term goal. I’ve got the land I would need and am working on fencing. In the interim, I have switched to meat raised and butchered by hand.

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chetradley@lemm.ee

2 points

2 years ago

By your definition, are you morally evil, trying to become neutral?

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4 points

2 years ago

Hmmm, I hadn’t considered it in those particular terms, previously. I would definitely say my actions are less moral than they would be if I was doing the raising and butchering myself. Evil feels harsh but if we are using clear cut terms like good, neutral and evil, then I have to put my current actions in the evil column. And since my entire argument is based on a moral middle ground, I would say yes. I am attempting to move into morally neutral territory.

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