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Originally Posted by godisdead
And if you think that hurting animals to provide for human well-being is bad even though you can't explain why, yet believe in eugenics to enforce your views, I'm done too.
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This is really something your mother should have taught you a long time ago, but I'll give it a shot:
'you don't like it when people hurt YOU, do you? Now, how do you think it makes little Susie feel when you pull her hair? Not very good right? You don't want anyone to pull YOUR hair like that right? Well Susie feels the same way!'
slightly more advanced: Animals have consciousness, nerve endings, five senses, the capacity for suffering etc. As a human being with supposedly evolved thought processes, it should be a simple matter for you to understand that you don't make other creatures suffer unnecessarily. If you have the basic and necessary trait of empathy, you can see that being force-fed your own body weight several times daily is extremely unpleasant, therefore you do not subject another creature to that, especially for bullshit and self-indulgent reasons. We eat meat, therefore animals have to die to provide it. We DON'T require foie gras for a balanced diet, and animals suffer horribly to provide it. Can't see the problem with this equation? Too bad for you, because it means you're missing something in your basic make-up, and it's probably genetic. The GOOD thing is that most people don't have this problem, therefore we're on the verge of outlawing foie gras permanently just like we did bullbaiting.