this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2023
578 points (89.7% liked)
Funny: Home of the Haha
5680 readers
438 users here now
Welcome to /c/funny, a place for all your humorous and amusing content.
Looking for mods! Send an application to Stamets!
Our Rules:
-
Keep it civil. We're all people here. Be respectful to one another.
-
No sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia or any other flavor of bigotry. I should not need to explain this one.
-
Try not to repost anything posted within the past month. Beyond that, go for it. Not everyone is on every site all the time.
Other Communities:
-
/c/[email protected] - Star Trek chat, memes and shitposts
-
/c/[email protected] - General memes
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
you've said clearly it's less moral.
ethics is generally presented with a scale that has three stops: moral duty (something you must do), amoral (something it doesn't matter if you do), and immoral (something you shouldn't do). if eating meat is less moral than not eating meat, the only way it's possible for it to be less moral without being immoral is if eating plants is a moral duty, and no one believes that. it's not like chewing a tomato is a good thing in and of itself like saving a drowning kid would be.
here's what i think: you have no formal training in ethics as a branch of philosophy, so you are using terms with which you have some familiarity, but you are playing fast-and-loose with terms that have specific meanings.
you may actually not believe eating meat is immoral, but if that's the case then it isn't consistent to believe eating meat is less moral than not eating meat.
Your level of thinking is waaaaayyy too black and white, less moral does NOT mean immoral
you skipped over amoral. in order for eating meat to be amoral, but less moral than not eating meat, eating plants must be a moral duty, and no ethical system (that i've seen) makes that claim. it's absurd.