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Most noteworthy for me is the fact that more Americans think that porn (52%) and homosexuality (39%) are wrong than spanking children (23%) and being ultra wealthy (18%).
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https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/03/19/what-do-americans-consider-immoral/
How is eating meat not morally wrong? Or not a moral issue?
Like genuinely does anyone understand how someone could think that?
It's about the scope of the question.
Eating meat has been natural to humans and their ancestors for about 3 million years. But we have never processed, presented and eaten meat in the way and on the scale that we are doing it today.
The downvotes on this are both funny and telling. I like it so its good. Asking if its bad is bad.
I'm actually starting to see the point in a weird way. If they think about as critically as a dog or a cat maybe it doesn't make sense to hold their decisions to a higher moral standard. We don't call it immoral when non-human animals rape other non-human animals because they aren't capable of the level of thought required to conceptualize moral decisions. But, uh, neither are significant amounts of humans apparently.
I have a milk cow and it dies of old age. Would it be morally wrong for me to eat it? Just throwing the meat away is morally right?
It's not a question on how the animals are treated. It's just the morality of eating meat.
Sure but 99.99% of store meat is not this. Its factory farmed animals stacked in pens living in their own piss and shit their entire lives just before they are slaughtered young
I'm not entirely sure, but I have heard the argument that we kill everything we eat to live.
I've had someone try to tell me that plants feel pain and scream when they die.
Okay dawg, but I know I'd rather mow my lawn than mow over a field of puppies.
I'm not entirely dismissive of the argument. I do think it has a point. Why do pigs get to live? Because they look vaguely like us? Fuck you wheat! You eyeless, legless monstrosity! I don't care how much you enjoy swaying in the wind and basking in the sun. You're literally toast!
Everything wants to live and is afraid to die. But I do agree dying screaming pigs is much more unsettling than millions of wheat stalks getting slaughtered by a combine.
The logical next question becomes: why do you get to live? Everything wants to live and is afraid to die. You aren't special.
This line of argumentation leads to nihilism at its conclusion: nothing matters, everything is permitted, kill whatever you want.
It's food. We have to eat to live.
I can eat you therefore kiling and eating you is not morally wrong or a moral issue.
Plenty of people donβt eat any meat and live just fine?