Ok I admit it – I’m a vegetarian. The reason for this is that I am not willing to kill as I do not need to. I can survive (and get fat!) without having to resort to murdering animals. I do not have that right. And I certainly don’t want some faceless factory worker in a slaughterhouse doing my killing for me either. That is pure hypocrisy.
But now, some bright spark (Adam Shriver, a philosopher at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri) has come up with a wonderful ‘ethical’ solution. Animals genetically modified so they can’t feel pain! He says “I’m offering a solution where you could still eat meat but avoid animal suffering.” That guy must have a heart the size of a planet!
What a complete load of toss. What kind of ‘philosopher’ is this guy? Does this world that exists within his own warped mind have any other brilliant notions to offer us? What about megabombs that kill so instantly that the thousands you have just wiped out are guaranteed to have had a lovely, pain-free death? Oooh, I feel so warm inside!
What about genetically modifying politicians so that they don’t feel guilt? Oh shit, silly me, that’s already been done. Killing is killing, with or without pain. And maybe the denial of sensation, which is the only way to make a creature ‘pain-free’, is far crueller than inflicting a brief amount of pain at death.
I know that 99.9% of the population do not give a toss about killing animals anyway. It’s just something they grow up with and accept as normal. But to anyone who has thought seriously about it, and has a conscience, even if they have decided to carry on letting others kill for them, I hope that they will see that this whole idea is a monstrosity and an ethical nightmare.
Next step – lobotomise them so they don’t feel distress or fear…