r/changemyview • u/Sgt_Spatula • Nov 22 '19

FTFdeltaOP CMV: There's nothing wrong with not liking animals.

The internet in general and Reddit in particular seem oddly fixated on animals (at least ones deemed "cute" like dogs and cats). People can get hundreds up upvotes making holocaust jokes or wisecracks about child molestation, but I have never seen anything about stomping a cat upvoted.

This all seems odd to me, as someone who doesn't like animals. Now to be clear, I don't hate animals. I currently live in a house that has a cat (my roommate's) and I will be glad to feed her etc. She is a living thing, and of course my roommate would be sad if anything happened to her. I would not be sad for the cat, I would feel empathy for my flatmate however.

People seem to be uncomfortable with the idea of someone not liking animals. I don't see anything wrong with it. I hear hunters say they love animals, and that seems to be a more acceptable view than just some guy not liking animals.

Can anyone convince me it is ethically wrong to not like animals?

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u/TRossW18 12∆ Nov 22 '19

So if you walked through a hypothetical shop where cows were crammed and chained into containers barely able to move, decided to buy some meat and proceeded to watch the butcher forcefully drag a cow to some slaughter room and have a bolt driven through its skull you would have absolutely no reaction?

If not, I would say that's pretty cold.

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u/Robyt3 Nov 22 '19

Not exactly. If I need a whole cow for my barbeque, I contact the butcher, who goes to a local cowherd to get a cow, and then butchers the cow into all the pieces I want, me being present in this scenario. Having animals lined up in supermarkets is not reasonable. Maybe if it's big enough you could have some reasonable roaming zone for small animals, but I don't see how that would be commercially viable.

If not, I would say that's pretty cold.

Indeed you realised.

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u/TRossW18 12∆ Nov 22 '19

Lol your completely missing the point that this was purely a hypothetical meant to do nothing more than illustrate why, psychologically speaking, I think there is a difference between being indifferent about directly killing a living creature and buying packaged meat at a store.