Asklemmy

43971 readers

708 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

147

What isn't illegal but should be? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Varven@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

348 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you want to argue for the ethical treatment of animals or that they deserve care and respect, that's one thing, and I can respect it. But equating that to what humans, especially children, deserve is ridiculous. If it came down to saving the life of a child or an animal, it would be immoral to not choose the human child.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca -4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

If you create intelligent life, it doesn't matter who it is or how it came to exist. Your moral responsibilities to that specific creature are identical. I'm sure you can find edge cases where you have to make a decision between a human and a non-human animal, but even if those edge cases all go to the human, it does not excuse all the other cases where there is no human that has to suffer for you to live up to your responsibilities.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Humans have not created intelligent life, so your whole point is moot. Maybe it'll become more relevant in the future, but at this current point in history, the only intelligent life that we "created", has been our own children.