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steemitboard (66)in #philosophy • 5 years ago
RE: In defence of meat: Reflections on society, ethics, experience, and current scientific knowledge – Part II
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steemitboard (66)in #philosophy • 6 years ago
RE: In defence of meat: Reflections on society, ethics, experience, and current scientific knowledge – Part II
Congratulations @alexbenjalbert! You have received a personal award! 2 Years on Steemit Click on the badge to view your Board of Honor. Do you like…
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kaitlynskelton (36)in #introduceyourself • 7 years ago
RE: My Introduction - Story of a Cultured Country Boy
Welcome to Steemit! (Sorry for my VERY late response)
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steemitboard (66)in #philosophy • 7 years ago
RE: In defence of meat: Reflections on society, ethics, experience, and current scientific knowledge – Part II
Congratulations @alexbenjalbert! You have received a personal award! Happy Birthday - 1 Year on Steemit Happy Birthday - 1 Year on Steemit Click on the badge to view your…
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linkback-bot-v0 (54)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
RE: In defence of meat: Reflections on society, ethics, experience, and current scientific knowledge – Part II
This post has been linked to from another place on Steem. Utilitarianism - a logic based morality by @stevescoins The #philosophy Review 12.4.2016 by…
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aaanderson (56)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
RE: In defence of meat: Reflections on society, ethics, experience, and current scientific knowledge – Part II
Thanks for following up. I wrote a long thoughtful reply then fatfingered my screen and lost the whole thing! The long and short of it is, i agree with you that there are many…
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stevescoins (69)in #utilitarianism • 8 years ago
RE: Utilitarianism - a logic based morality
there is no way you can learn everything, so no need to feel bad about not researching an incredibly complicated subject. In exchange for that summary, you have given me an…
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aaanderson (56)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
RE: In defence of meat: Reflections on society, ethics, experience, and current scientific knowledge – Part II
Vegetarian who enjoyed your post here. I found your arguments well reasoned, the main sticking point to me was the marginal case argument. I would argue that our preference for…
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stevescoins (69)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
RE: In defence of meat: Reflections on society, ethics, experience, and current scientific knowledge – Part II
Here go:
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martinmooney (62)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
RE: In defence of meat: Reflections on society, ethics, experience, and current scientific knowledge – Part II
Hard to see what rational grounds we could use to justify valuing human life more highly than that of any other animal.
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stevescoins (69)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
RE: In defence of meat: Reflections on society, ethics, experience, and current scientific knowledge – Part II
You have that last point exactly right. I can't say definitely that he didn't say anything about animals, but I expect that his position is very similar to what you just…
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stevescoins (69)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
RE: In defence of meat: Reflections on society, ethics, experience, and current scientific knowledge – Part II
I've been to lazy to look it up, but I don't recall anything about Benthem including animals in the matrix. I've been meaning do a summary of utilitarianism anyway, so I'll…
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screenname (66)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
RE: In defence of meat: Reflections on society, ethics, experience, and current scientific knowledge – Part II
This post has been ranked within the top 80 most undervalued posts in the second half of Dec 03. We estimate that this post is undervalued by $6.22 as compared to a scenario in…
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finpunk (64)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
RE: In defence of meat: Reflections on society, ethics, experience, and current scientific knowledge – Part II
Completely agree with you on both counts, and I agree that there are a lot of really good people in agriculture doing their best to reduce suffering; most people are good, in…
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finpunk (64)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
RE: In defence of meat: Reflections on society, ethics, experience, and current scientific knowledge – Part II
I agree that there's no universal ethic against killing animals to eat. My wife and I recently started a largely plant-based diet, one of the reasons we've reduced meat (other…
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steemit-life (67)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
RE: In defence of meat: Reflections on society, ethics, experience, and current scientific knowledge – Part II
A little off topic, but that first pic looked soooo good! lol Some very valid points In your post though...Thanks @alexbenjalbert:)
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stevescoins (69)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
RE: In defence of meat: Reflections on society, ethics, experience, and current scientific knowledge – Part II
Utilitarian philosophy is actually pretty reasonable when it is applied to humans. I had never seen anyone attempt to use it to propagandize animal "rights". Sigh, now I have…
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cryptoctopus (75)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
RE: In defence of meat: Reflections on society, ethics, experience, and current scientific knowledge – Part II
So glad you are back and such a good article. Resteemed!
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lifeisawesome (69)in #life • 8 years ago
RE: Mansplaining: Thoughts on it from a man.
Bam. Right there! Well articulated. In a far better way than I could ever have done. And you're right, I get absolutely furious when I come across facebook pages with their…
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lifeisawesome (69)in #life • 8 years ago
RE: Mansplaining: Thoughts on it from a man.
I agree with you there. There's a lot I come across today that just makes me feel bad, and being a self-proclaimed progressive man it should make me feel like I want to do more.
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