Did you know dog meat is served in restaurants in South Korea? I didn't. In the United States and most western countries, Fido is a family companion and while it's not ethical to judge another culture by our standards, anyone who doesn't at least (humanely) butcher the animal first is acting without proper care. South Korea relies on western consumerism for their economy and needs to be aware that we do not accept the practice of skinning and boiling dogs alive. Originally shared by April Benney Over 6,000 restaurants in South Korea are still serving dog meat even though it is now illegal. In many Asian countries dogs are boiled alive or skinned alive when slaughtered. It's an unbelievably horrendous & torturous way to die. I know a lot of you hate seeing this kind of posts on G+, but the Asian industry slaughtering dogs & cats is how I first got involved in animal rights & it will always be my main animal welfare concern. It's intolerable what is happen...
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There is an infinity of things in which we all do not believe. That does not make all of us "believers in an infinity of non-things". Same with atheists. We simply reject one more thing than most people do. But anyone with a bit of mathematical saaavy knows that infinity + 1 is just still the same value of infinity.
And no. Consensus plays no role in truth. We cannot form a commttee to decide whether 2 + 2 = 5. Or rather, we could, but it's deliberations would be meaningless.
And Eli Fennell, I'm afraid you've got the problem induction exactly right. I can no more disprove the existence of god than I can the existence of the easter bunny. But if you have good inductive reasons to believe in some kind of god -- or the easter bunny -- then it is rational (e.g., from a Bayesian perspective) to believe in said god or bunny. But it's an inductive inference and so never guaranteed to be right.