Animals and Ethics. I am 7. I read a Bible story. God likes animal sacrifice. I know: God is wrong. Why unethical? What is good ethics?

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ANIMAL SACRIFICE
INNATELY IMMORAL?






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animals and ethics: how we treat animals is, for me a major part of ethics.
good ethics and animal sacrifice: from the first time I heard of it, animal sacrifice felt unethical.
why unethical? what would good ethics be? and, again, why?

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Animals and Ethics. God drowns animals.
God approves of animal sacrifice.
Child loves animals. The verdict?

I did not not make any major judgment, like god is bad,
religion is bad, the Bible is bad. I did not turn against religion.
I did know: this is wrong, god is wrong.
Animal sacrifice: why unethical? And what are good ethics?

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Animal Domination vs
I Utterly Know That's Wrong

Am I aware that the Old Testament says god gave us dominion over the animals? Yes.

Are you aware that the same god found it fine to drown billions of animals because he was upset with people?

The story: Noah and the flood. That god didn't like how people were behaving - except for eight humans on the whole planet - so he considered it fine to drown all the others, including infants, along with every land animal and bird, except for the very few there was space for on one ark.

Do I disapprove of such lack of consideration for animals and also humans too young to have done anything wrong? Yes.

I remember another Bible story that utterly did not make sense to me when I was a child. It was about a brother who killed animals, burned them - and god approved! No one told me this was wrong, but something inside me absolutely knew it was.

But is animal sacrifice unethical? If so, why is it unethical?

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IDEA * EVALUATION * CONCLUSION * INSIGHT * COMMENTARY * CONTROVERSY * INTELLECTUAL CONFLICTS *
ANIMALS AND ETHICS * HUGE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MORALITY OF ANIMAL SACRIFIC, ABOUT GOOD ETHICS*
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Animals and Ethics. I am 7. I read a Bible story. God likes animal sacrifice.
I know: God is wrong. Why unethical? What is good ethics?

 

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Animals and Ethics

A core issue in ethics is exploring the sources of ethical values.
Here, a big question is: is there an innate moral sense,
related to the innate capacity for empathy?
Such a moral sense would be enhanced by things that enable empathy,
and could likewise be stunted, disabled, destroyed by a society which cuts empathy
for, say, animals, women, Jews, gays, people from another society or religion.

SUB-IDEA: With animals and ethics, many people are undergoing a radical shift
from seeing animals as ours to dominate and use as we see fit,
to living creatures with rights of their own - animal rights and more.

SUB-SUB-IDEA: We are still quite a distance from the tipping point,
when animal sacrifice is generally considered immoral, unethical -
but that tipping point may be nearer than most people imagine.

 

Animals and Ethics. God drowns animals. Child loves animals.
Animal Sacrifice, Dominion Over Animals vs Childhood Horror
at Slaughter of Innocent Animals. Verdict: God Wrong.

 

ANIMALS AND ETHICS
IDEA: It makes sense to develop good ethics without reference to god or religion,
and if we hold religious or spiritual beliefs, to make sure that we do not,
due to these beliefs, violate our inner ethical sense.

ANIMALS AND ETHICS
IDEA: A huge field - everything from animal testing, sacrificial animals,
animals rights, pet ownership.

Currently the Western relationship with animals is undergoing a huge shift -
including through a television channel such as Animal Planet, where animals are valued.
Animals and ethics - animal rights and more.

 

Dominion Over Animals, Animal Sacrifice vs
an Inner Moral Voice.
God drowns animals. Child loves animals. God doesn't. God out.



In the West, especially among those with a Christian background, the issue of animal sacrifice, of sacrificial animals, may not loom large, but it's important to recognize that identifying core issues in ethics
means including core issues in ethics other cultures and other societies.
In the Muslim religion, for example, to sacrifice an animal is considered fine,
sacrificial animals are part of the religion, animal sacrifices are considered something god likes.

But if we have empathy with animals, then we naturally recoil from the practice of sacrificial animals -
and cannot imagine that any god would have a similar reaction.

ANIMALS AND ETHICS
Our ethical evaluation of what is an acceptable way to treat animals
changes as our empathy level with animals changes.

Elsa
January 3, 2008


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