Comments by "Deus Ex Homeboy" (@DeusExHomeboy) on "Inside Japan’s Global Dolphin Trade" video.

  1. I understand your POV, but as soon as you get into using "more/less intelligent" as a metric/grading system for what to kill for food (not survival) and what to spare, you land on a morally slippery slope. A "person" is just a story you've come to believe, but there is nothing unique to humanity which makes them "exempt from being eaten". There are "persons" who (for whatever reason) are less intelligent than the average Dolphin, Pig, Cow, Dog, etc., taking that logic a bit further, from your POV, it would be moral to eat the mentally handicapped person. Intelligence is a bad metric to use. It's not about how intelligent something is. It's about whether it has a mind, and can suffer degraded states of existence.
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  2. It's habits they can't get over, disguised as "tradition/culture". People love to exaggerate and "elevate" their petty behaviors. It's like deliberately living on an island made of only rocks, and populated only with male crabs, and little babies. Given long enough, you'll end up eating the little babies, and maybe even make a culture or tradition out of it to feel better, a story to blur reality just enough.
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  3. Idk man, most of the world does the same kind of thing, often in worse ways. With a smile.
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  4. Here's a little googly question for you my dude- Would you be just as cool about it if a comatose human was "pre-cut stunned" and then chopped up for your dinner? (Another bonus is it saves tax dollars, and in turn, lives of other people, instead of being spent on a vegetative human) Since your emphasis is on "removing pain from the equation". And not on "doing non consensual things to other, experiencing minds". Also, if you do have a theory on why humans are exempt from being on the menu (aka treated like things that become your treat), why they are a cut apart (hehe), I'd love to know about it.
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  5.  @SpaceRanger187  Flew right over the point. Isn't it more like you can't eat anything that pays taxes?
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  6. @Yoo Wat Lol dude the point's the same with slavery. Job's not done just because you've freed 80% of the slaves. A serial killer doesn't become moral just because there's other, much much worse serial killers around. Pointing to the most extreme version of habits just like yours doesn't automatically justify anything on any side.
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  7.  @JD-jz5rr  I see your point, but that is just YOU. And your opinions and preferences on how to be killed are not universally applicable my dude. You have to further attempt to grasp the vast range the potential of all possible minds, so far beyond our own "seemingly infinite" imagination. One (or a few more) degree better than the worst way to kill something isn't automatically morally vindicated. The only justifiable time to end a life is if your own depends on it. Or if that life will inevitably run through countless others blindly. If the Perpetrator's own Preferences are projected onto every victim, then EVERY perpetrator is justified. It's just shortsighted, and I don't mean any insults.
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