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Killing animals is wrong + Too Soon to Call This the Anthropocene Era

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C C Offline
A ‘humanely’ killed animal is still killed -- and that's wrong
https://aeon.co/ideas/a-humanely-killed-...hats-wrong

EXCERPT: Western conventional wisdom about animal ethics is that killing an animal is not the problem; the problem is making the animal suffer. As long as we have treated and killed an animal in a ‘humane’ way, we have done nothing wrong. A compelling example of this belief is found in the case of dogs and cats, animals particularly valued in Western culture. If someone inflicts suffering on a dog or cat, they are excoriated. But unwanted dogs and cats are routinely ‘put to sleep’ – killed – in shelters with an intravenous injection of sodium pentobarbital, and most people do not object as long as the process is administered properly by a trained person and there is no suffering inflicted on the animal.
Why do we think that killing animals per se is not morally wrong? Why do we think that death is not a harm for non-human animals?

Before the 19th century, animals were mostly regarded as things....



It’s Too Soon to Call This the Anthropocene Era
https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/astr...pocene-era

EXCERPT: Many historians and even some scientists argue that we are living in the Anthropocene, a new epoch characterized by the human control of the biosphere. Next year the International Geological Congress will consider recognizing this name as the latest addition to the standard geological time scales. My reaction, echoing the Romans: Festina lente. Make haste slowly.

To be quite clear: There is no doubt about the pervasiveness of our interference in global biogeochemical cycles, the loss of biodiversity attributable to human actions—the mass dumping of our wastes; the large-scale deforestation and accelerated erosion of soils; the global extent of pollution generated by farming, cities, industries, and transportation. In combination, these man-made impacts are unprecedented and of a scale that may well imperil the future of our species. But is our control of the planet’s fate really so complete? There is plenty of counterevidence.....

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elte Offline
I see a tier.  Self aware, conscious, thinking, feeling pain, not feeling pain, and lastly, robotic (robotic is most like things).
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C C Offline
(Sep 14, 2017 02:04 PM)elte Wrote: I see a tier.  Self aware, conscious, thinking, feeling pain, not feeling pain, and lastly, robotic (robotic is most like things).


Robotic is a good adjective for the bulk dynamics of the universe.

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(Sep 15, 2017 02:23 AM)C C Wrote:
(Sep 14, 2017 02:04 PM)elte Wrote: I see a tier.  Self aware, conscious, thinking, feeling pain, not feeling pain, and lastly, robotic (robotic is most like things).


Robotic is a good adjective for the bulk dynamics of the universe.

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posses an interesting question...
is quantum particle duality a mechanism or an experiential event ?
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