Animals Are Bred to be Killed by Earthling Ed Lyrics
Animals are bred for a purpose. That's why we bring them into existence in the first place, so that we can use them for their meat, their milk, their eggs and the other products that we take from their bodies.This is one of the arguments that's confused me the most because I've never been able to understand what right we think we have to decide what purpose another animal's life has. After all, all of these animals are individuals with their own wants, their own desires, their own needs, their own faults. These animals want to live a life for themselves. What purpose we give to them is irrelevant to what they want to do with their life. All they want to do is live their life and do the things that come natural to them, they have no desire to service. They have no desire to fulfill the purpose that we assigned to them.
And the issue is, if we justify killing and exploiting animals for food
with the excuse, "They're bread for that purpose," we also morally justify other actions where animals are used, including dog fighting.
After all, many dogs are bred into existence with the purpose to one day fight in dog fights, which means it must therefore be morally justifiable for those dogs to be used in dog fighting.
This argument also completely ignores the fact that these animals have no awarenes of what purpose we have assigned to them with their life. How would we like it if our life was decided for us before we were born, that our purpose was decided for us before we were born, and that when our life would be taken from us, was decided before we were born. How would we like to be brought into a world
where we were brought in with a purpose to be used and exploited?
If we wouldn't like it for ourselves, what right do we have to assign a purpose to another living being who also just wants to live their life the same way that we do, the same way that the companion animals that we love do, the same way the animals in the wild do.
So no, you can't morally justify exploiting and using animals because they were bred into existence with that purpose in mind because it's irrelevant what purpose we've assigned these animals. These animals just want to live their life in the same way that animals that are bred without a human purpose, also just want to live their life.
And the issue is, if we justify killing and exploiting animals for food
with the excuse, "They're bread for that purpose," we also morally justify other actions where animals are used, including dog fighting.
After all, many dogs are bred into existence with the purpose to one day fight in dog fights, which means it must therefore be morally justifiable for those dogs to be used in dog fighting.
This argument also completely ignores the fact that these animals have no awarenes of what purpose we have assigned to them with their life. How would we like it if our life was decided for us before we were born, that our purpose was decided for us before we were born, and that when our life would be taken from us, was decided before we were born. How would we like to be brought into a world
where we were brought in with a purpose to be used and exploited?
If we wouldn't like it for ourselves, what right do we have to assign a purpose to another living being who also just wants to live their life the same way that we do, the same way that the companion animals that we love do, the same way the animals in the wild do.
So no, you can't morally justify exploiting and using animals because they were bred into existence with that purpose in mind because it's irrelevant what purpose we've assigned these animals. These animals just want to live their life in the same way that animals that are bred without a human purpose, also just want to live their life.