The Moral Worth of Animals
Are humans morally superior to animals? I think not, it isn't exactly egalitarian, either, but close.
Are humans morally superior to animals? I think not, it isn't exactly egalitarian, either, but close.
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Moral Worth of Animals
- Thread starter The Hammer
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I was going to do this thread, you beat me to it.
We are all animals. Non human animals have their own moral standards.
We are all animals. Non human animals have their own moral standards.
Audie
Veteran Member
Mark Twain determined that the anaconda is
morally superior to the Frenchman
close but no cigar
a lesser intelligent being can't explain to you why it moral to love your enemies
Nor can you. You can give justification based on your personal belief system, you cannot explain the mortality of it
So.i guess now you are going to **** all over this thread too
Kooky
Freedom from Sanity
Most people I've talked to can't, either, if they believe in such highly impractical tenets in the first place.
But I generally find suppositions of "intelligence" a poor argument either for or against moral worth. Why would it be moral to do harm to a creature incapable of language or human reasoning? They are still being harmed, and still feel pain, they are just less capable of articulating the how and why.
What does this have to do with the innate morality and worth of the creature itself?
assigning the morals of a human to that of a lower life form is the problem. the actions belie the truth
because you are trying to compare less intelligent life forms/beings to higher intelligent ones. its not the same. inherently a human can meet higher standards. they are not the same
I have never seen an animal nuke hundreds of thousands of people, i have never seen an animal commit holocaust or genocide.
No one assignes human morality to animals, no need, they have their own morality, often superior to that of some humans
because a lower intelligent being can't be creative and loving on the scale of a human.
i didn't say anything about killing. you're on another planet of your own making
So lets see you live in some of the most inhospitable places on earth, where would your human intelligence be then?
VoidCat
Pronouns: he/him/they/them
What about an infant? They are not as intelligent as an adult and for all you know they may end up being disabled and less intelligent then most humans...are they by chance less moral?
Kooky
Freedom from Sanity
And therefore it is moral to harm them?
Would you mind sparing a few minutes to walk us through the argumentative process that led you to this conclusion?
Fair enough. Apologies for making undue assumptions.
still doesn't change the moral equivalency of the human potential over lower intelligent life forms
In your opinion which actually tells much about your moral values
they would not have the psychological maturity of a fully formed human; so until they become an adult we don't know.
but other life forms having less intelligence, ability to learn abstract ideas, and implement them into real world experience are never going to get to that human ability.
i'm not advocating for the suffering and abuse of animals. i'm stating that other animals are never going to have the moral ability to achieve on that level
personal comments about anyone doesn't override the fact that animals of lower intelligence will never have the same moral apptitude for bettering not only their species but others.
again i never stated anything about killing. you're misrepresenting what was said
Can a human child explain that? Can most human adults explain that? Are you saying that they have less moral worth because it's over their heads?