>>11885134>The only good argument for veganism being objectively moral is an environmental argumentEven if everyone being vegan were worse for the environment in all regards and everyone being omnivores were better for the environment in all regards, killing animals would still be unethical.
>Even if we should care about animal suffering (why should we?)For the same reason that we should care about human suffering when it's at its extreme. If you learn there's a serial killer in your state, shouldn't you care that people are being killed? If you learn the serial killer is brutally torturing people before killing them, wouldn't you feel bad about the suffering the people are experiencing?
>All animals die, so isn’t it better that they be mercifully killed, rather than left to starve, or be eaten alive? And isn’t a good thing that we not waste meat?All humans die, so isn't it better that people be euthanized at a set age so their brains and organs can be used for scientific and medical purposes? Why waste perfectly good brains and organs?
As for the starving and being eaten problems: there will eventually be ways to solve this without having to kill them before they can be killed by something else. It's like saying the best way to deal with people in poor, third-world countries full of disease and starvation is just to euthanize all the poor people in the country, to spare them from possible future suffering, and don't you worry about that coincidental perverse incentive to use their organs for your own benefit.
