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The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
~Joseph Campbell
Posted by: XII CIUTCH IIX
Don't pretend that if some higher power came along and herded you into a pen and starting slaughtering you that you'd just think, "Hey, it's ok, they are superior after all".[/quote]
Here's where I, and probably most others, will depart. Even supposing that it is a purely selfish desire, and that it is unnecessary because of scientific advances, I do not view the death of animals as a pain that needs to be taken into account when making moral decisions. My reasoning is not that they don't feel pain, because they do, and as such it is wrong to torture them, but rather that death for animals is a complete end of their existence, and that my pleasure in eating their flesh is greater than the minimized amount of pain that is caused in killing them.
You've actually answered to the meaning of the OP, what I was looking for.
What your saying, is that the joy of eating them is greater for you, than the suffering they are caused.
Although I disagree, I think it is completely valid and that it is a fair point.
But, who are we to decide this?
Exactly. If I were attacked and eaten by a lion, I wouldn't blame the lion for being hungry. Just like I don't blame humans for eating other animals.