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#633 - Peter Singer - Are You An Evil Person For Eating Meat?
Modern Wisdom
Why Should We Care About the Suffering of Other Animals?
An oyster doesn't move. An oyster just sits on a rock, basically. It's hard to see why an oyster would have evolved a capacity for pain. Why should I care about the suffering of some non-human animal? You can care if another human suffers because they're a complex creature like me. They've always been bred for a very long time for our consumption. This is the way that it's always been. That was also true of Europeans, for example, with their more advanced technology,. Their guns, but we don't feel that that justified them in dominating other animals.
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