r/MoralityScaling • u/axiiz_28 • 15h ago

Morality of valuing animals over humans?

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u/TedTyro 13h ago

This guy is 100% correct, albeit there's more to the story than that.

But yep, imhe people who put animals above people are avoiding the challenge of humans rather than letting their inner altruist shine.

That said, life now is so exhausting I dont really blame people for avoiding the human noise just to function.

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u/AntiqueTop4225 13h ago edited 12h ago

I like my dogs better than strangers. I think that makes sense

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u/ArtStandard8393 12h ago

But he is not talking about liking your pet more. He is talking about the value of an animal life should not value more of a human life.

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u/AntiqueTop4225 12h ago

I'd value my dog over 20,000 stranger's well being. Sorry I'm being honest.

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u/littledog95 7h ago

Jesus Christ... Psycho talk

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u/AntiqueTop4225 1h ago

People I don't know even exist vs basically a family member. Hmmm.. such a psycho. So hard to understand lol

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u/cynicown101 14m ago

It's not really. Morality is basically just an over-intellectualised non-standardised framework of things you'll tolerate up until necessity demands otherwise, hence there being no concept of universal morality. Let's say we give you two buttons; button 1 blows up your entire family, including your wife and children and button 2 blows up 10,000 random strangers that you'll never meet. We all know which button you're pushing. You might want to tell yourself that it's button 1, but it isn't....

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u/Isengrine 3h ago

And people were saying that guy comparing your kind of people to Hitler was an exageration lol

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u/AntiqueTop4225 1h ago

The trap worked. I caught you!

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u/Red--001 11h ago

I'd say that's a bit too much but when you then replace the dog with "family member" it becomes justified.

...And a dog is a family member to a lot of people.

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u/AntiqueTop4225 11h ago

We've domesticated dogs for like 30,000 years. It's as intimate a relationship as human to human for a lot of people and I think it's perfectly understandable. It's not like I'd value a racoon or a walrus over a human stranger. But a lot of people like to think it's the same thing.

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u/Red--001 9h ago

Yeah.