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LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I don’t need a reason, neither animals nor fetuses are sapient and Idgaf about them.

I do think we should reduce our meat consumption, but that is only so that we don’t overexploit the environment and cause catastrophe, and so that we can eventually establish council communism and redistribute resources more evenly between the proletariat, so we may all benefit from nature’s spoils rather than the inherent inequity of the owner-worker system we have now.

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Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I don’t need a reason, neither animals nor fetuses are sapient and Idgaf about them.

Babies and small children aren’t sapient either. So up to what age of a child would you say it is morally ok to cut their throat?

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- LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Nah they’re pretty sapient. I get you’re anti-abortion too?
  
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  - Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Nah they’re pretty sapient
    
    Sapience is about applying wisdom, knowledge, intelligence. Babies are not sapient. Did you mean sentient?
    
    killing babies, unless it’s like baby Hitler doesn’t really serve any purpose (human pleasure is happiness, and maximisation of happiness is purpose)
    
    And yet if someone’s only source of happiness in life was killing babies, I am sure you would be against that.
    
    I take it you’re anti-abortion too then?
    
    Abortion rights only relate tangentially to sapience and sentience. Even if the lump of cells inside a womb was sentient and sapient I would still be pro-choice, since abortion is about bodily autonomy. But think about why you would assume I am against abortion rights. Did that maybe make it easier to dismiss my entire point?
    
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