Animal suffering roundup

Monday 9 December, 2019 9:22 am | Uncategorized | gregdavisdotca

The moral uncertainty presented by taking a position on issues relating to animal suffering has been a topic of conversation I’ve run into lately. It’s a total landmine of emotional opinions, rightfully so.

I noticed some commentary online lately, thought I would bookmark some of it:

SHOW MERCY FOR ANIMALS

Eric Margolis points out some rather appalling issues I didn’t know existed.

The sunk cost fallacy is a persistent source of human stupidity.

People are more willing to perpetrate animal and human suffering for a futile goal when they have already perpetrated animal and human suffering for that goal:https://t.co/eHfGwwc3gT pic.twitter.com/9BXosSy7Tj
— Cory Clark (@ImHardcory) December 2, 2019

This one is actually tongue and cheek, but relates to the next link..

Hostile Planet series: Here are animals struggling, suffering and dying horribly.
…But if we don’t fix climate change these animals will die in different horrible ways. pic.twitter.com/wsLaycwZuB
— Diana S. Fleischman (@sentientist) December 2, 2019

This conversation opens up a can of worms:

Animals in the wild often suffer a great deal. What, if anything, should we do about that?

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