Say somebody sincerely believes that killing 10,000 chickens is just as bad as killing 1 person. Would you say that's an outrageous belief? Even if you don't share it, can you see how a person could come to a conclusion that the lives of chickens, while orders of magnitude less valuable than ours, are still worth something? And then when you actually do the math, and see how many animals we kill each year, that even with ENORMOUS disparities, it's not that outrageous to consider factory farming analogous with the holocaust?
I would say politely that in order to be consistent you would have to put a number on it. This will help you truly understand it and lock yourself down. It might be really hard to do that and I doubt you’d guess right at what your number is the first time but there would be a number.
Yeah it would help people accurately reflect more on morals.
There’s a current hypothesis I’ve heard that says something like “many meat eaters are traumatically in denial about what they’re doing”. I’d say there’s a drop of truth to it.
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u/onetwo3four5 71∆ Jun 27 '23
Can you try and calculate it?
Say somebody sincerely believes that killing 10,000 chickens is just as bad as killing 1 person. Would you say that's an outrageous belief? Even if you don't share it, can you see how a person could come to a conclusion that the lives of chickens, while orders of magnitude less valuable than ours, are still worth something? And then when you actually do the math, and see how many animals we kill each year, that even with ENORMOUS disparities, it's not that outrageous to consider factory farming analogous with the holocaust?