Monday, August 9, 2010

Ethical Dilemma - Circular Logic

Vegetarians. They don't eat meat. Probably some for reasons of health but others and probably the majority because they don't think killing animals for food is ethical. For moral reasons. You know, cows have big eyes and so on.

So what if there was a scientific breakthrough and it was discovered that plants had feelings. That carrot that got pulled out of the ground had silently screamed. Vegetarians would have a dilemma on thier hands. Puzzled, would they choose to starve?

There is another choice, scavenge and eat what was allready dead and not by their own hands. Like buzzards and vermin do.

Ironically, the creatures that we think are nature's most disgusting just might be the most morally ethical, well, at least to vegetarians.