• testfactor@lemmy.world
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        If non-human animals cannot consent, isn’t all sex between any two non-human animals rape?

        If that’s the case, isn’t this preferable to just letting the animals just rape each other indiscriminately?

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          isn’t all sex between any two non-human animals rape?

          Non-human animals aren’t moral agents and can’t be subjected to the same moral outcomes that humans have. The same way we can’t say a hurricane has done something immoral.

          Non-human animals are moral patients. When moral agents act immorally upon moral patients, the agents are responsible.

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          isn’t this preferable to just letting the animals just rape each other indiscriminately?

          That’s not why people do it though. It is wrong to make up new justifications for actions after the fact. It exists as an industrial process to get animals pregnant more often than they’d naturally choose to.

          isn’t all sex between any two non-human animals rape?

          And no, not all sex between 2 animals is rape. Animals can consent to sex with other members of their species, animals can’t consent to sex with other species because of communication differences (the big one being any animal with a human).

          If that’s the case, isn’t this preferable to just letting the animals just rape each other indiscriminately?

          The same way that hunting is more moral than farming, letting animals go at it in a natural way is way better than 1. tricking bulls into ejaculating into tubes and 2. forcibly inseminating cows with that genetic material.

          You need to quantify the rate at which animal rape is occuring to justify using this method on the basis of “preventing rape.”

          Also if you sought to prevent any animal rape, you’d have to seperate them all by sex. As far as I know this doesn’t generally happen except for their specific breeding season, and it would be cruel to seperate male and female livestock for their entire existence, just as it’s cruel to deny them their natural sexual intercourse. Humans aren’t supposed to play God with every facet of an animal’s life.

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          If I were to artificially inseminate a woman with sperm from a spermbank without her consent, would that be sexual assault?

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              right mate, I am sure you can draw any equivalences with bestiality and such yourself, so I won’t explicate on them. I just want to say, you don’t have to defend the man-made horrors within our comprehension of animal product industries if you don’t want to be a vegan. I am not a vegan, because I can’t afford to. You can just say “that shit’s fucked up”.

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                There is a lot of horrible things in animal agriculture, this one isn’t really one of them. I’ve seen the process with my own eyes … the cows don’t care, they barley notice. I feel more for the people who have to do that professionally.

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                  idiot

                  Don’t need to say that

                  I think it really depends where you live and what your lifestyle demands of you.

                  Where I live, meat is on sale a lot at supermarkets, lots of frozen food meals have meat in, and people might not have time to shop for ingredients or even to cook all the time - which i presume is the key to making veganism cheaper.


                  If you want to convicne people veganism is cheaper then you have to unfortunately (for you) “spell it out for them” - e.g give examples of vegan meals against meat meals, tell us where you’re shopping.

                • Almost every person that are not Vegan just do not get this. Even back in the day, it was more costly to be mainstream eating/not all food homemade Vegan, with unhealthy processed foods industries. Plus the side effects (physical-social & Etc.) of horrible health causes are extremely costly.

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                Others Beings have rights

                Only if we say so. We invented the entire “rights” thing in the first place and we’re kind of in charge of handing them out.

                If you believe in god(s)

                Nope, just plain old non-existence after death for me.

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                  1st. I understand why you might believe that wrong, based upon second answer. Everything born-living has Rights, simply because of birth-existence, somethings are not technically birthed into this world. It is more of a reflection upon those do not accept that fact.

                  By the way, the most powerful thing, outside of universal forces, are all our minds & together they even more powerful.

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                    Everything born-living has Rights

                    Well, we just have to agree to disagree. I think nothing had any rights before humans invented the concept. And even now, any right that can’t or isn’t being enforced is pretty much useless and not more valuable than a wish.

                    By the way, the powerful thing, outside of universal forces are all our minds & together they even more powerful.

                    Well, considering that humanity would be totally helpless against universal forces, like a super volcano or a gamma ray burst, it suggests that all our minds are pretty weak in the over-all schema of things.