Artificial intelligence

[madHatter]

Yeah...the last movie I saw in a theatre was...honestly, I can't even remember. I'm somewhat of a home-body to begin with...then you get married, have two kids....well, you get the idea. I'm particularly boring and uninteresting. It's true.

But your online persona makes you seem more worldly and have had vast experience with pop culture. And have that savy of a modern philosopher.

 

[rOmiLaYu]

I wonder if the primates had been previously exposed to mirrors, and had a chance to figure out what they were seeing.
There aren't many regularly eaten animals that I've been around smarter than pigs. I have to admit, knowing the depth and breadth of emotions that animals like cattle, pigs, sheep, goats experience, it is a bit disconcerting to raise them as food. It is for me anyway, and I grew up on a farm, and have worked in a meat processing plant. To extend to those animals the same compassion and love as the beloved family dog is accurate and logical, yet most of us do not.

I think those are all valid points. I had a friend who lived on a farm and he always rationalized it based on the purpose of the animal. The dogs were coworkers and the cattle were the product. It worked for him.

 

[rOmiLaYu]

But your online persona makes you seem more worldly and have had vast experience with pop culture. And have that savy of a modern philosopher.

It's an artfully crafted facade, years in the making.

 

[madHatter]

It's an artfully crafted facade, years in the making.

Consider yourself an artist

 

[Laufen]

I think those are all valid points. I had a friend who lived on a farm and he always rationalized it based on the purpose of the animal. The dogs were coworkers and the cattle were the product. It worked for him.

Yeah, that's what I used to tell myself, but it's really not true. I'm still a hypocrite though.
Also, their purpose was not, and is not innate. It was borne from our will for their existence. We've coaxed their evolution to fit our dietary needs. It's not like they just continue to pop up from nothingness to provide a food source. We continue to cultivate them.

 

[rOmiLaYu]

Consider yourself an artist

Or just authentic

 

[rOmiLaYu]

Yeah, that's what I used to tell myself, but it's really not true. I'm still a hypocrite though.
Also, their purpose was not, and is not innate. It was borne from our will for their existence. We've coaxed their evolution to fit our dietary needs. It's not like they just continue to pop up from nothingness to provide a food source. We continue to cultivate them.

I'd bring up Scripture and how all this is set out but .... yeah.

 

[Laufen]

I'd bring up Scripture and how all this is set out but .... yeah.

You could, and you could also bring up the fact that the christian god never intended (or did he, knowing ahead of time that eve would take that bite, and he set the whole clusterfuck into motion anyway) humans to eat animals, they all just existed together.