falconsgyre said:
Plurralbles said:
This does not compute. How does making an animal suffer for no reason equate to stripping an animal of its flesh and eating it because you bred its parents for that express purpose?
Since I didn't ask "would you
kill a puppy," it's not an exact analogue. But notice how a lot fewer people would kick a puppy, even though they're definitely doing less harm to the animal, than would eat bacon. I just wanted to see how people's intuitions would be different when they were asked to hurt a puppy instead of a pig. The "reason" is getting a small amount of money, which was meant to be comparable to the pleasure you get from eating the pig.
It's often used to show that people don't hurt certain animals because they are cute, which should have no bearing on anything at all. And then we look at what makes puppies cute, and it's the comparable features they share to babies (Big eyes, realitively big heads, their composure, dependance, playfulness).
Which is an interesting way to consider it