Serious Question
What should be done about other fleshing-eating creatures?
If animals deserve personhood and killing sentient things for foodis unethical, then aren't all carnivorous things unethical?
i understand they do not have the same brains we do, but neither do psychopaths or paranoid schizophrenics and we don't allow them to wander around killing persons. at the very least, shouldn't we seek to quarantine all flesh-eating creatures to protect the personhoods of prey aminals?
is that a longterm goal? if we don't care, why not? how do a hungry aminal differ in its capacity to behave ethically from a mentally ill person?
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