You asked me whether it is my view that eating animals is not okay but having sex with them is. Here is one way of thinking about this question.
Imagine that you are an animal locked up all of your life in a factory farm stall too narrow for you to even turn around, let alone walk a single step, so that you have nothing to do all day except stand up and lie down on a floor consisting of bare metal slats. Then you are crammed into a truck and driven for many hours to a place where you will be slaughtered. This is what happens to millions of pigs in the US today, and the lives of billions of other factory-farmed animals are no better.
Now imagine that you are an animal living with a person who cares for you and loves you in all the ways that most people love their companion animals, but in addition, this person sometimes has sexual contact with you, making sure that the contact does not hurt you, and leaving you free to move away if you don't like it. You live out your natural lifespan like this, and when you get old and terminally ill and are in distress, the person who cares for you, full of sadness, takes you gently to a veterinarian who puts you to sleep.
Date: November 11th, 2023 12:04 PM Author: well-lubricated meetinghouse jap
This reminds me of arguments I used to make in middle school.
I once argued that if we are allowed to kill and eat animals, we should also be allowed to torture and mutilate them, since killing an animal is worse than anything else we could do to an animal. So if killing an animal is allowed, torturing them is, too.
Singer's parents were Austrian Jews who immigrated to Australia from Vienna after Austria's annexation by Nazi Germany in 1938.[6] They settled in Melbourne, where Singer was born in 1946.[7]
Date: November 11th, 2023 8:16 PM Author: Angry multi-billionaire
This is better as a matter of wordplay, but I still prefer to think of Singer working all night on an ethics manuscript before plugging away on a Maltese.
Date: November 11th, 2023 2:04 PM Author: maroon stirring skinny woman set
Now imagine that you are an animal living with a person who cares for you and loves you in all the ways that most people love their companion animals. Now imagine that this person is brilliant. I am talking genius— could teach at an Ivy League school. Sure he is kind of short and balding,BUT he is world famous for his intellectual acumen. Coeds don’t seem to care though. Fucking bitches. I mean, seriously, this person is a great guy! Now let’s get back to that animal. A springer spaniel named Betsy….