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This text is a counter position to Why Eating Animals Cannot be Wrong I view animals as moral patients. Even though they cannot act morally themselves, they have to be considered in our moral decisions. The reason for that is that they have a subjective experience and thus have their own agency. And thus they can have intentions. Not rational ones but emotional ones. "Emotional" in the sense that…
In this post I pictured a situation between two partners where the sleep of one partner would be disrupted through an unwanted consequence of an action by the other. In this scenario it was clear, that using the tap is directly tied to disrupting the other partners sleep. But there is still a key difference between disrupting someone's sleep and killing animals though indirect measures like…
This text is based on: Why eating animals cannot be wrong There is harm that is done to the animal world that is absolutely necessary, i.e. necessary for survival. Like using land to grow food. Building infrastructure to distribute that food, and so on. I think it is possible to name a whole lot of thing that we can agree on that are really necessary. But life consists of more activities than just…
This text is based on: Why eating animals cannot be wrong My argument is based on the assumption that killing an animal for food is really the same as indirectly killing animals through any other aspect of our lives. My claim is, that we have the right to do harm to animals in order to live a life worth living even though these actions are not strictly necessary for survival. And since each action…
This title might sound a little controversial but hear me out. There is no action in this world that does not have a consequence on the animal world around us ... Broadly speaking ... Every road that is built, seals of a little bit more surface. Splits up more of the animal habitats. Makes it harder for animals to live in general. And not just roads. Every house. Every village. Every city. Every…
A moral standard that I cannot possibly live up to is moral standard that I am not willing to accept as true. If a moral standard implies a certain action but I cannot practically perform that action every time that it would be required, that moral standard cannot be valid. A moral standard should take into account what is practically possible. A moral standard should enable me to act carefully…
There are questions about the external reality to which I cannot have an objective answer. Not now and not in a thousand years. For example, whether there is something that lies beyond my perception of the world. But whether an objective answer is actually possible does not influence whether I deem such a question as relevant for myself or not. For example, many people deem the question whether…
My original plan was to write my posts in german. Just as a way to get my thoughts out of my head. But as I was beginning to read through other people's posts I realized that part of getting my thoughts out of my head is also enabling other people to read them. So from now on my written language will be english.