SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 months agoJustifying one thing because it's a necessary component of another unnecessary thing... what logical fallacy is that?message-squaremessage-square114fedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down14
arrow-up134arrow-down1message-squareJustifying one thing because it's a necessary component of another unnecessary thing... what logical fallacy is that?SeahorseTreble@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square114fedilink
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·10 months ago it’s cruel it’s not.
minus-squareSeahorseTreble@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-210 months agoIt’s not cruel to cause (ultimately) unnecessary suffering to an animal? And that’s your opinion, remember. Not a fact.
minus-squarecommie@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agocruelty would be doing it just to cause suffering. suffering is incidental, not the point. if we produced everything using the exact same processes without suffering, would you find that acceptable? i think everyone would say that’s preferrential.
it’s not.
It’s not cruel to cause (ultimately) unnecessary suffering to an animal? And that’s your opinion, remember. Not a fact.
cruelty would be doing it just to cause suffering. suffering is incidental, not the point. if we produced everything using the exact same processes without suffering, would you find that acceptable? i think everyone would say that’s preferrential.