Well that is basically my conclusion too. But I am not sure we would be quite so philosophical about it should that happen.
And the deer doesn't just lay down and let the lion eat it, either.
I guess (to contradict myself somewhat) that my actual conclusion is that aliens should treat us with some moral consideration based on our level of sentience and that we should also treat other sentient animals with more moral consideration than we actually do.
I think we do treat more sentient animals more morally. And the cute ones too
You know of dolphin-safe tuna, right? What's up with that?
Sure, there's exceptions and some people do terrible things. But in general I think there's a trend between level of sentience and how we treat them.
I just find it hard to get too worked up about our morally inconsistent treatment of animals for purely subjective reasons.
The point of this thread is simply to point out that inconsistency really.
I don't think many of them are
that conscious that we're being very immoral. Who gets it the worst? Cows and pigs and chickens? Do they have any clue what's going on? Can they even consider an alternative? And how bad are the collective "we" really treating them?
ABE:
The second baby Straggler was born just over a couple of weeks ago now.
I wondered where you've been. Congradulations!
Edited by Catholic Scientist, : No reason given.