What is your excuse for killing animals?

[Drudgewire]

Are you saying we should model our morals after lions?

I can has morelz and cheezburger.

 

[tsig]

Just because normative topics involve opinion, doesn't mean they're useless to discuss.

normative [ˈnɔːmətɪv]
adj
1. implying, creating, or prescribing a norm or standard, as in language normative grammar
2. expressing value judgments or prescriptions as contrasted with stating facts normative economics
3. of, relating to, or based on norms
normatively adv
normativeness n




Your statement:
Just because normative(expressing value judgments) topics involve opinion(a value judgment), doesn't mean they're useless to discuss.

 

[Meed]

I'm not sure what you're trying to say..

 

[tsig]

I'm not sure what you're trying to say..

You have no moral ground to stand on to condemn eating meat.

 

[Meed]

I can make any normative judgments I like.

For the record, I never "condemned" eating meat.

In a discussion forum, it is quite typical to discuss things that involve opinion.

 

[cyborg]

I think I'm done... once the other side is reduced to tiny posts repeating points which have already been answered repeatedly, there is nothing new to be said, and nothing to be gained by repeating oneself just for those people's benefit.

That's good Kevin, you just go away and be morally superior now.

I do suggest you start adding lizards to your diet though.

 

[Ron_Tomkins]

In a discussion forum, it is quite typical to discuss things that involve opinion.

It is also quite typical (although maybe not as typical as the former) to discuss things that involve facts.

 

[Meed]

Indeed... one would hope that opinions would draw from facts and logic.

 

[Ron_Tomkins]

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I can has morelz and cheezburger. [qimg]http://www.lethalwrestling.com/upload/keke.gif[/qimg]

I can haz pork chopz?

 

[applecorped]

Wow, I've seen some mighty fine strawmen displayed in this forum, but this just about takes the cake.

Meat cake I hope.

 

[Steve]

I think I'm done... once the other side is reduced to tiny posts repeating points which have already been answered repeatedly, there is nothing new to be said, and nothing to be gained by repeating oneself just for those people's benefit.

ie; Kevin_Lowe says "I win!" Apparently this was some sort of contest.

 

[applecorped]

I think I'm done....

Well-done?

 

[Ron_Tomkins]

Well-done?

 

[Morrigan]

Well-done?

How savage, barbaric and uncouth. Rare is the only way to go.

 

[barrymore]

I am the only moral one here. I only eat plants and animals that have died of natural causes.

 

[Mirrorglass]

I am the only moral one here. I only eat plants and animals that have died of natural causes.

Hey, me too!

Though I suspect we might have a different interpretation of "natural"..

 

[bruto]

I am now stuck with the image of barrymore out on the highway after a spring rain with a spatula....mmmmm! Guilt-free frog night!

 

[Complexity]

I am now stuck with the image of barrymore out on the highway after a spring rain with a spatula....mmmmm! Guilt-free frog night!

Is being run over by a car dying of natural causes?

(hate people using 'natural' - must go on rampage)

 

[cyborg]

Is being run over by a car dying of natural causes?

Doesn't matter; we've already established that road-kill is vegan.

Although we've also established that lizards are vegan too - presumably other reptiles as well - and I think we could probably infer that amphibians are vegan too for the same reasons lizards are.

Therefore amphibians are good to eat either way.

 

[Belz...]

Personally, I think we have the potential to be better than that.

But isn't that assuming that killing animals is wrong in the first place ?