Example: I believe that IP is a direct contradiction of nature, sacrificing the advancement of humanity and the world for selfish gain, and therefore is sinful.
Edit: pls do not downvote the comments this is a constructive discussion
Edit2: IP= intellectal property
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Extend that to plants and mineral resources, and you’ll be both fully moral and dead.
Plants and minerals aren’t conscious, don’t have feelings and sense of self.
They also don’t exist for us and aren’t ours. Your first comment didn’t mention consciousness or feelings.
I mentioned specifically animals, and didn’t feel the need to go into detail to why I feel that way. It doesn’t feel like you’re really commenting on good faith, so I’m not gonna respond any further than this.
That hasn’t been proven yet, and plants and trees do have sensations and awareness of others around them.
Also I don’t understand how you can reconcile your opinion about animals when they hunt each other, play with their preys, and are sometimes cannibalistic.
Why impose human concepts of ethics onto animals that survive based on instinct? Humans are omnivores, and in places where we have access to Lemmy, we also have access to things like grocery stores and farmers markets. We don’t need to eat animals to be healthy, nor do we need to eat any other animal products. We do so out of tradition, or familiarity, and then justify the horrible way we treat other life because we like the taste. Plant life having sensations isn’t equivalent to the sensations that we know that animals have, and the suffering we know farming animals causes. And rather frankly, eating animals requires growing more plants and killing more plants than just eating the plants.