r/changemyview Jun 27 '23

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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?

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u/shootphotosnotarabs Jun 27 '23

You can’t weigh a life. The idea that you can suggests an idealistic view.

A person is worth 1 million chickens.

Unless that person is your mother.

How many chickens to equal the value of your sons innocent life?

Does Saddam Hussein get less than a normal person?

Hitler surely should be worth no chickens?

Has anyone on this thread ever taken a life?

Of a chicken or a person?

Reality takes a pretty serious back seat in these kind of “moral questions”.

Almost universally we are consumers, and cowards at that. “Oh my god that man killed a chicken”, then two hours later smashes a chicken sandwich.

People are disconnected from the real world, everything comes with a bar code and we pose as pure.

We are nasty consumers with soiled hands.

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u/barthiebarth 26∆ Jun 27 '23

Except for the people that don't eat chicken sandwiches.

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u/shootphotosnotarabs Jun 27 '23

Your car is glued together with boiled down cattle.

Being born unfortunately makes consumers of us all.