Can you provide some ethical and philosophical reason's for your answers thank you.
2006-10-24 21:40:11 · 9 answers · asked by Orditz 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It's all cultural. We can't even attribute it to type of animal--some birds are pets, others dinner, yet all dogs are pets in our culture.
This is completely arbitrary. It goes along with why are insects always exterminated in some cultures, yet used as food in others. It's all cultural, as humans are omnivores, and can derive usable calories from a wide variety of plants and animals.
2006-10-24 21:52:42 · answer #1 · answered by nora22000 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Coz we as human idiots I hope we'll have a second life were animals rule the world do u know wt will happen :) they'll have the vegetarians ppl as pets and all the others for dinner!
2006-10-25 06:26:41 · answer #2 · answered by Shusha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some start out as pets and end up as dinner.
My wife and I went on vacation to farm country and toured a dairy farm. While on tour we saw a cow with a wooden leg.
I asked the farmer, "How'd the cow get a wooden leg."
"Well," he said, "the cow is a great milker, she gives 5 gallons of milk more than any other cow I've got. And she's a hero, too. The hay wagon overturned on me and she ran to the house to get help."
"And that's how she lost a leg?" I asked.
"No", he replied, "then the barn caught on fire and she kicked a pail of water on it to put it out."
"And that's how she lost a leg?" I asked again.
"No. Then my son fell down the well and she lowered a rope down to him and held on until he could climb out."
Getting a little annoyed that he hadn't answer my question, I said, "Is that how?"
"No."
"Then how did she loose that leg?"
"With a cow that valuable, you don't eat them all at one time."
2006-10-25 04:52:38 · answer #3 · answered by Da Judge 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do believe it's called fate! Why are some pet owners sadists and others normal? Why are some people alive while others die in the most horrendous of circumstances? Regardless of the why? Schopenhauer said that the day of our birth brings us a day closer to death...I find that comforting, don't you? :o>
2006-10-25 09:15:37 · answer #4 · answered by moloch2006 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Really it all deals with social norms and religion verses need. Here in the US Dog is taboo, in Korea its dinner. Ethically killing is killing, And we should all become vegetarians
2006-10-25 04:49:32 · answer #5 · answered by sergeant4 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pets r lucky and the "dinner animals" r just unlucky. Thats it!
2006-10-25 04:51:08 · answer #6 · answered by su 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some animals are cuter and more cuddly than others.
Plus some taste better than others.
You ever eat a cat?
They're gross.
2006-10-25 09:14:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because some animals have proved they are worth keeping for our protection and the protection of our flocks and we have discovered they are also good company
2006-10-25 04:43:18 · answer #8 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE.
2006-10-25 07:41:10 · answer #9 · answered by ShinningStar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋