This is a section of veganism that I don't really know much about. I know some people advocate for humans working to reduce the suffering of animals in the natural environment. I do understand the drive behind it because animal suffering is horrible even if it's natural, but on the other hand is it our place as humans to intervene in the environment like that? My personal view of environmentalism always hinged on making as little change as possible to local environments, to the point where I avoid foraging or picking flowers to reduce my impact.
If anyone knows any good places to read some theory on this topic, or if you have any of your own thoughts on this I'd love to hear from you.
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no action is the best action sums it up
it's consequentialist for me in both cases as a utilitarian, like I can't have one code of ethics in one situation and a different code in another
but consequentialism can still lead to ironclad rules like 'not harming animals for pleasure', esp because a statement like this is partly including the consequences. it's saying the small pleasure of taste will never outweigh animal suffering, which is true
That's a great point that I've noticed in my own thinking about these topics in how difficult it can be to synthesis the two frameworks in certain circumstances, but I've never seen it elaborated like that. So just from a vegan argument, do you see any reasonable approaches to reducing natural suffering?
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