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Should you save a dying stranger if you know they eat MEAT? Oxford philosopher controversially argues that it can be ethical to let them die because of the suffering they cause to animals (and he's not even a vegan!)
UK Daily Mail ^ | July 4, 2022 | John Ely

Posted on 11/06/2022 5:59:00 PM PST by C19fan

Letting meat eaters drown is ethical because of the suffering they cause to animals, an Oxford University academic has controversially argued.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Education; History; Society
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To: C19fan

Should we not be kind to animals because THEY eat meat?


21 posted on 11/06/2022 6:27:41 PM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: C19fan

The article reads like it is an ethical question being raised without his opinion being expressed. I think it is a thought experiment, not advocacy.


22 posted on 11/06/2022 6:40:21 PM PST by laxcoach (The secret to happiness is a bait pen full of pinfish.)
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To: C19fan

What idiots.

If they are a stranger, how would you know if they ate meat?

If you know they eat meat, then they are not a stranger.


23 posted on 11/06/2022 6:53:55 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Throw him in a cell and give him nothing but the minimal amount of water to hydrate him and then WAIT. There would come a time when you throw a rat into the cell he will eat it. Hypocrite.


24 posted on 11/06/2022 6:58:02 PM PST by Gaffer
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To: metmom

I had to read that twice! 😂
Your right.
They are idiots.


25 posted on 11/06/2022 7:01:20 PM PST by MotorCityBuck ( Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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Dr. Michael Plant, eh. Reads like satire.
26 posted on 11/06/2022 7:11:26 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Hammers. They're not just for nails anymore.

27 posted on 11/06/2022 7:24:05 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: All

what would a vegan do about human milk? human milk cheese / ice cream made with the consent of another human?

*mindblown*


28 posted on 11/06/2022 7:24:57 PM PST by VAFreedom (Wuhan Pneumonia-Made by CCP, Copyright Xi Jingping)
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To: C19fan

I would let an Oxford University professor die just because he was a pedantic dick.


29 posted on 11/06/2022 7:26:54 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
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30 posted on 11/06/2022 7:31:17 PM PST by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: ansel12
What if he is a vegetarian, but works as an exterminator?

LOL good question. Can you imagine, coming up on an accident scene, and the first question someone asks, is if the person eats meat? Are there idiots like that out there?

31 posted on 11/06/2022 7:37:53 PM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: joshua c

(laying the groundwork for mass starvation)

Yep. Godless reprobates.


32 posted on 11/06/2022 7:54:08 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: C19fan

If one comes across a dying academic, is it ethical to put him out of OUR misery?

You, know too useless to live?/sarc.


33 posted on 11/06/2022 8:03:27 PM PST by RedMonqey
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To: C19fan

I have known a lot of meat-eaters and I have never met one who eats meat from animals he has killed by torturing them to death.


34 posted on 11/06/2022 8:04:22 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: C19fan
Mister Plant would do well to read from a philosopher of much greater stature, Alf.

"Vegetables are not food. Food eats vegetables."

35 posted on 11/06/2022 8:17:47 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston Churchill)
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To: C19fan

Should you save a dying vegan because they support killing babies?


36 posted on 11/06/2022 8:33:21 PM PST by jersey117 (D)
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To: C19fan

How to make yourself sound hateful in one easy lesson!


37 posted on 11/06/2022 8:35:45 PM PST by lee martell
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To: C19fan

I heard that cows cause global warming so I’m doing my part to kill as many as I can. To be ethical, I’ll only kill what I can eat.


38 posted on 11/06/2022 8:57:19 PM PST by Do_Tar (Do I really need a /sarc?)
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To: C19fan

Did the Oxford philosopher wear leather shoes and belt?


39 posted on 11/06/2022 9:05:35 PM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: C19fan

Death to all Venus Flytraps! :D


40 posted on 11/06/2022 10:17:01 PM PST by Zack Attack
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