I'm shutting down Google+ for the night and quite possibly for the weekend. Why? This stupid #gifwars thing people are so proud of. This Adam Black guy said he doesn't like gifs and now everyone is mass trolling him. Having been mass trolled like this I can relate to him easily enough. Have an opinion and the collective might of Google+'s lower class denizens jump on a bandwagon. I just saw a post where someone wanted to jump on board and had to get clarification she was tagging the proper Adam Black. She wasn't even connected to him ! Nor was she a part of the original discussion. She just wanted to follow the herd. When I called her out of it she claimed, "one gif doesn't make a troll." Perhaps not, but she's contributing to a larger troll effort. One straw doesn't break the camel's back, but thousands will. So, tonight, Google+ disgusts me. It probably will tomorrow as well. And possibly Sunday. I gave up Google+ for two months this spring
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I for one would certainly not care as much if they were pigeons (or chickens or fish or cattle). The morality of the subject is tricky, but I have come to the conclusion that it is directly related to levels of sentience, in particular suffering and mourning.
Dogs are much more intelligent and self-aware than those other animals, and to me it crosses the line of morality to consider them as food. Other people will position their line differently, but mine would cut off dogs, cats, apes, dolphins, & possibly even horses and elephants.
I'm almost on the fence about pigs, but dammit that would mean giving up bacon so I'm really sorry, pigs. :P
Haven't seen the stuff you refer to about cows... was under the impression they are fairly dumb in the scheme of things...
We could always just go with fish, and perhaps chicken, which we know to have very little self-awareness?