The Vengeful Cheeseburger

[azurawt]

I just came from Ethics 101. We're talking about Utilitarianism and the wrongness of eating animals. I was listening to the concept, but nothing makes my hackles rise more than a self-righteous vegetarian and my class had two too many of them. You want to avoid meat and meat products because of your own personal views? Fine! Just don't sit up on

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[pistol_nick]

I couldn't agree more.

[audiovocum]

I am curious how utilitarianism goes with the idea of eating animals. Are animals considered in the greater good? If so, tell your hippy-ass professor that you are a human elitist and that you don't buy into that other animals as being on par with the human animal. That'll get his ethical goat. He he.

[azurawt]

He basically said that Utilitarians feel that anything that is capable of pleasure/pain and suffering count. Animals feel pain and suffering. Therefore, animals butchered (in the American industrial way) suffer, and their suffering outweighs the good feeling people get when they eat a steak. Utilitarians think that pleasure is the ultimate goal when it comes to happiness and happiness = morally good. Therefore, eating animals (at least animals that aren't farm-raised and humanely slaughtered) is wrong--according to Utilitarians.

[hurrysundown]

-chews a rare, bloody steak while hugging a tree-

[commonboy]

::chews a tree while hugging a rare, bloody steak::

[spunkywulf]

Your choice of music here should've been "Cheeseburger in Paradise" :)

[nasagirl]

I love meat. Nuf said.