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I was directly responding to the previous commenter saying that it's natural to hunt and eat. Our current system of industrial farming of animals is inhumane for both animals and farmers. Nature might be unforgiving and metal, but we have brought the unnecessary torture of sentient animals to unholy levels.
That's what I meant with my comment.
Plenty of animals kill just for fun and will torture their prey for hours. And just because something is inhumane, doesn't make it unnatural. If anything, it's humane practices that are unnatural.
No other species has built killing factories that torture and kill billions of animals per day. It's not even comparable.
I use the word "humane" in the sense of "you would mot subject humans to it".
My brother in Christ I take it you haven't met ants and chimpanzees have you?
Oh, right, how could I forget the factory farms that ants build where they pack thousands of aphyds in tiny cubicles where they can't even move, feed them unhealthy diets to make them grow at unhealthy speeds to the point their bones break, and then finally kill the for meat. /s
Nothing else in nature compares to our animal torture industry.
My brother in Christ you know nothing of the ant wars.
Neither of the chimpanzee wars
Learn a bit, it won't kill you
We're not talking about war, that's a whole other topic. Ants don't have war for pleasure. They have war to protect or expand their territory. We torture animals for pleasure. I know trying to call me ignorant makes you feel a little better but it doesn't make you correct.
no one is torturing animals.
People who eat meat are paying others to torture animals.
no one is torturing animals or paying people to do it.
They are, though.
saying it doesn't make it true.
But it being true kinda does
if it were true, you could provide proof, instead of rhetoric.
That argument doesn't hold any water.
this, too, is not proof, but more rhetoric.
Nah mate. There's no arguing with religion even with proof.
this, too, is rhetoric, and not evidence
I didn't say about hunting either, as it isn't relevant to context of Irwin's quote
it's not torture.
Making something sit in one spot in a cage for their entire life to the point where they couldn't move even if they wanted to isn't torture?
Do you also think solitary confinement in prison is natural?
in torture, the pain and discomfort is the point. prison is an excellent example of torture. by contrast, I think everyone agrees that we would prefer if no pain or discomfort were part of farming animals. this is probably especially true for the people actually doing the farming and slaughtering. in this case, the pain and discomfort are only incidental. it's not torture.
In torture, the goal is typically something other than the pain in itself.
if there were no pain or discomfort, it wouldn't be torture.
Everyone agrees? Really? So is humanity just collectively ignoring the alternatives? How is it possible that "everyone agrees" that you prefer no torture and pain, but the vast majority of people chose to engage in that practice? How can you live like that?
if you know a way to raise animals for products at the current scale and price without any pain or discomfort, you should let us know.
Well, you don't. But a good first step is scaling wayyy down. Factory farming is a response to public demand for meat.
I think this is a fiction.
So if you chain someone up and don't intentionally dislocate any joints, and make them sit there for 10 years like that, it's not torture?
What is it, collateral damage?
the question is why am I chaining them. I wouldn't do this because I think it is immoral to chain people up, but I don't need to invoke the spectre of torture to believe it's wrong.
If you're going to chain someone to the same spot for their entire life your intentions don't mean anything. Your act of doing it is what makes it torture.
torture is a specific thing. there may be a medical reason to do it. if I cut off your foot, that might be a form of torture, but if I do it because it's dangerous or mangled, it's a mercy. the intent matters. incidental pain is not torture.
You know exactly what this discussion is about. You talking in circles isn't smart.
Have a good one.
I havent changed my position at all. that's not talking in circles.
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