It all depends on culture. Thick about it- In western culture we slaughter thousands of animals every single day, subjecting their lives and many other animal's lives to ones of misery, existing and suffering as mere objects to do as we wish with, only for our own luxury.
Now sounds horrific when you put it like that, yet I'm sure if I were to compare it to the holocaust, there would be outrage. Because while torturing animals in contained conditions is considered 'acceptable', violating basic human rights is apparently 'not okay'.
... Yet although an atrocity, to many at the time, the holocaust would indeed have been acceptable and justified also.
In some culture's the objectifying and cruelty inflicted upon animals today would seem sickening. But it really does depend on how you've grown up and what you've gotten used to and learnt to consider as normal.
However outragous you might think something is, such as your example of 'torturing babies', you have to remember that nothing is black or white;
There is no universal true 'good' or 'evil', only what we are conditioned to perceive. Until we learn to question things ourselves and begin to make our own judgement.
This is why there will always be conflict in the world.
Just because we slaughter animals every day doesn't make it right. I am addicted to chicken and I am doing wrong every day. Their suffering exists, no matter if we care or not. Doesn't that have anything to do with right/wrong?
I wasn't saying their suffering doesn't exist, it's fact that it does. I was mearly using animal exploitation as an example for how many in the western culture consider some things normal and okay, which to many others would seem bizarre.
It's a matter of opinion whether it is right or wrong, as with everything. Everyone is entitled to an opinion as long as they can back it up.
If something is right or wrong is a moral choice and never set it stone- however strongly you feel about something there will always be others with opposing views.
Unless you believe in god and his 'rules' or 'commandments' and his judgement, who has the right to say who has the correct viewpoint? Nobody does.
Are certain things INTRINSICALLY right/wrong?
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It all depends on culture. Thick about it- In western culture we slaughter thousands of animals every single day, subjecting their lives and many other animal's lives to ones of misery, existing and suffering as mere objects to do as we wish with, only for our own luxury.
Now sounds horrific when you put it like that, yet I'm sure if I were to compare it to the holocaust, there would be outrage. Because while torturing animals in contained conditions is considered 'acceptable', violating basic human rights is apparently 'not okay'.
... Yet although an atrocity, to many at the time, the holocaust would indeed have been acceptable and justified also.
In some culture's the objectifying and cruelty inflicted upon animals today would seem sickening. But it really does depend on how you've grown up and what you've gotten used to and learnt to consider as normal.
However outragous you might think something is, such as your example of 'torturing babies', you have to remember that nothing is black or white;
There is no universal true 'good' or 'evil', only what we are conditioned to perceive. Until we learn to question things ourselves and begin to make our own judgement.
This is why there will always be conflict in the world.
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Just because we slaughter animals every day doesn't make it right. I am addicted to chicken and I am doing wrong every day. Their suffering exists, no matter if we care or not. Doesn't that have anything to do with right/wrong?
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I wasn't saying their suffering doesn't exist, it's fact that it does. I was mearly using animal exploitation as an example for how many in the western culture consider some things normal and okay, which to many others would seem bizarre.
It's a matter of opinion whether it is right or wrong, as with everything. Everyone is entitled to an opinion as long as they can back it up.
If something is right or wrong is a moral choice and never set it stone- however strongly you feel about something there will always be others with opposing views.
Unless you believe in god and his 'rules' or 'commandments' and his judgement, who has the right to say who has the correct viewpoint? Nobody does.
"Just because we slaughter animals every day doesn't make it right."
I hate to play devil's advocate, but who told you that something was right or wrong?