I don’t think you get to make a black and white, general argument about this. How about this: if a person raises and cares for a chicken, giving it a charmed live it would have otherwise never have, but takes and eats its unfertilised eggs, then that’s not morally wrong.
It’s just not as obvious as people think, and your first sentence is a naive oversimplification and a great example of the kind of lazy argument I’m talking about. But I don’t want to get into it with my friends since it’s such a touchy subject, and I’ll never get a decent conversation about it online.
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kaffiene@lemmy.world 4 months agoVeganism IS morally correct. I eat meat because I like it, but ethically, environmentally, it’s clearly worse than eating meat. It’s ok to admit you do things which aren’t morally the best
crapwittyname@lemm.ee 4 months ago
kaffiene@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You were talking about eating meat and I clearly mentioned eating meat in my response. Eggs is a different topic
crapwittyname@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Veganism is the topic. Vegans don’t eat eggs.
kaffiene@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Well enjoy talking to yourself then
Kimano@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fully agree. Honestly there’s a few subjects where this kinda logic comes up and I get annoyed. Like it’s fine to not be perfect, but don’t pretend that you aren’t perfect, or that your choices are somehow ‘good’ when they aren’t, just because you don’t like the realization.