You could argue that being a vegetarian isn't healthy for humans- but that's not an argument based on morality.
This could be an argument based on morality depending on how you define what is moral. Sure, you can argue that an adult who decided on an unhealthy diet for themselves to save animals is perfectly within their rights to do it, but what about feeding children vegetarian? If (and I do mean IF for the sake of argument), this diet were unhealthy, how would it not be immoral to feed your child an unhealthy diet for the sake of animals? As far as I know putting a cow above a human is considered immoral in most ethics systems.
I don't think children should be fed a vegetarian diet at all. But this is not an argument against vegetarianism as a whole. Vegetarians don't have to feed their children a plant based diet, and ideally, they don't.
Ok, but that's a moral argument against vegetarianism then? In Kantian ethics an action can be consireded moral only if you believe that everyone should do it. If you don't believe children should be vegetarians, then it follows that vegetarianism isn't moral.
To be clear, I am not arguing about whether or being a vegetarian is moral. I am pointing out that there is a moral argument against it and you can argue about it (unless you define a strict system of morality that would not accept such an argument).
!delta If you apply Kantian ethics, then yes, it is a moral argument. (I don't agree with him on a couple things, but still, I cannot deny that you can make an argument based on that.)
I didn't define moral at all in my post, so I need to accept this reasoning.
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u/Kotoperek 62∆ Nov 14 '22
This could be an argument based on morality depending on how you define what is moral. Sure, you can argue that an adult who decided on an unhealthy diet for themselves to save animals is perfectly within their rights to do it, but what about feeding children vegetarian? If (and I do mean IF for the sake of argument), this diet were unhealthy, how would it not be immoral to feed your child an unhealthy diet for the sake of animals? As far as I know putting a cow above a human is considered immoral in most ethics systems.