Anonymous #2 23h

there are many things I don’t eat because they make me squeamish but I realize that’s something personal to me and not a value or moral judgement or lacking to the person eating it

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Anonymous #2 23h

I hope I’m understanding you and what you’re saying correctly because I’ll admit I had a little trouble following

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Anonymous #2 21h

Every culture on earth has had to eat dogs and cats and horses during a time of famine. I can dislike a negative stereotype of a culture while still tolerating the culture itself. To me it sounds like you’re trying to justify eating dogs instead of fighting a negative stereotype. I don’t eat shark either but it’s because they’re vulnerable and need protection because so many catch and eat them for their fins. There wouldn’t be an org like the World Dog Alliance if it wasn’t a big deal.

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Anonymous OP 21h

It depends on what you view as inhumane because everything tastes like chicken and can be eaten at the end of the day, even people. And you could make the same argument about eating human. How much more different is a dog than a person? Less than most animals we do eat, and that’s where the disgust comes from

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Anonymous OP 21h

a wild animal being in danger of extinction (sharks, sea turtle eggs, rare seafood) is a very valid reason and justification to be being against eating it but that’s not what I’m arguing

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Anonymous OP 21h

And yeah my main argument is eating dogs is no worse than eating pigs or cows. And people who oppose it while being not against all factory farming or all meat are hypocrites and virtue signalers

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Anonymous OP 21h

Yes sure the world dog alliance exists but imagine if Arabs and Jews formed a world pig alliance. Would be silly right? It seems to me that people who have so much against other people eating dogs are listening to their emotions and letting their emotions control them instead of thinking critically and letting your rationality set your emotions

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Anonymous OP 21h

Personally I’m somewhat indifferent to dogs but I do love cats so we shall use this as an example. Now I find cats adorable and could never stomach eating one. Even the thought makes me sad. But can I get mad at someone else for eating them? I know I can’t without being a hypocrite because I eat pork, beef, chicken, and eggs too. My lifestyle supports suffering on sentient beings and this is a moral pitfall I have. So for me to advocate against eating cats for it being cruel…

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Anonymous #2 21h

while I contribute to animal cruelty by eating other animals is an absolutely ridiculous position to be in and is really just the pot calling the kettle black. That’s it. Meat eaters who oppose dog meat specifically are the pot calling the kettle black.

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Anonymous OP 21h

also cannibalism is completely separate bc it is not an arbitrary line drawn. Consuming your own species actively impedes its survival. Whereas which animals your culture chooses to eat and to not eat is for the most part arbitrary nowadays. Partially based on tradition (or risks in the past) and partially based on how your culture or lifestyle allocates animals. Entirely arbitrary. There’s no moral value assigned to them. So to act like there is is simply ridiculous

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Anonymous #2 21h

Nah fam you gotta go full vegan at this point because either the suffering of sentient animals is justified from your full stomach or it isn’t. The only animal on earth that is sentient is us, because we can’t prove otherwise. Either it’s all ok or it isn’t, and ethics has aesthetic criteria that people will use as exceptions to the rule. If you hold a pig, a cat, and a person on the same level of meat then yes it’s the same but nobody does

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Anonymous #2 21h

Millions of animals are cannibals and it does have evolutionary advantages and drawbacks that humans never had to deal with

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Anonymous OP 21h

yeah I’ve made peace with the fact that my choice of eating animals is at least somewhat morally in the gray area whether that’s a lighter or darker shade we don’t know. However I also recognize the choice of what animals I choose to eat are completely arbitrary and so long as another persons choice isn’t causing more harm than mine (ie by eating endangered animals from the wild) I have no right to clown on them.

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Anonymous OP 21h

sure but do humans lay 10000 eggs at a time? no so it’s not the strategy we were assigned as humans

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