On Mon, 6 Mar 2017 22:22:15 -0800 (PST), Rupert challenged Goo:
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>On Monday, March 6, 2017 at 10:19:06 PM UTC+1, Goo wrote:
>> On 3/6/2017 11:54 AM, Rupert wrote:
>> > On Monday, March 6, 2017 at 6:17:00 PM UTC+1, Goo wrote:
>> >> "Getting to experience life" is not a benefit to livestock animals, or
>> >> any other kind of animal.
>> >
>> > Why is that?
>>
>> A benefit to an entity is something that improves the entity's welfare,
>> and coming into existence doesn't do that. It cannot do it - prior to
>> existence, there was no welfare to be improved.
>
>How about death, then, is death a harm?
"the moral harm caused by killing them is greater in magnitude
than ANY benefit they might derive from "decent lives" - Goo
""Getting to experience life" has no significance." - Goo
"no matter how "decent" the conditions are, the deliberate killing
of the animals erases all of it." - Goo
"it is not "better" that the animal exist, no matter
its quality of live" - Goo
"NO livestock benefit from being farmed." - Goo
"No farm animals benefit from farming." - Goo
"Existence - "getting to experience life" - is not a benefit to livestock
animals (or any other living entity) and deserves no moral consideration
at all, and gets none from rational people." - Goo
"It is not a "benefit" to come into existence and "get to experience life"
instead of never existing" - Goo
"the comparison is nonsense and cannot be made." - Goo
"A life - *any* life of *any* quality - is not a "benefit" to an animal versus
never existing" - Goo
"I *never* make such a comparison" - Goo
"Coming into existence is not a benefit compared with never existing - proved."
- Goo
"the comparison between existence and non-existence, from the
perspective of the entity, cannot be made" - Goo
"...existence, or "getting to experience life", is not a benefit compared
with never existing." - Goo
"the "getting to experience life" deserves NO moral
consideration, and is given none; the deliberate killing
of animals for use by humans DOES deserve moral
consideration, and gets it." - Goo
""giving them life" does NOT mitigate the wrongness of
their deaths" - Goo
"If ... you believe that the nutritionally unnecessary choice
deliberately to kill an animal ALWAYS causes a moral harm
greater in magnitude than . . . the moral "benefit" realized by
the animal in existing at all, then you MUST believe that it
makes moral sense not to raise the animals as the only way
to prevent the harm that results from killing them." - Goo
"IF one believes that the moral harm caused by killing
them is greater in magnitude than ANY benefit they might
derive from "decent lives", then logically one MUST
conclude that not raising them in the first place is the
ethically superior choice." - Goo
"Life "justifying" death is the
stupidest goddamned thing you ever wrote." - Goo
"It is morally wrong, in an absolute sense - unjust, in other
words - if humans kill animals they don't need to kill, i.e. not
in self defense. There's your answer. " - Goo