Comments on: Comeuppance http://www.jejune.net/bits/2011/01/comeuppance-2/ about nothing in particular since 2000 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:41:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Nicole http://www.jejune.net/bits/2011/01/comeuppance-2/comment-page-1/#comment-5150 Nicole Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:29:23 +0000 http://www.jejune.net/bits/?p=5204#comment-5150 Funny. I’ve never been able to eat those. As a kid we always called them thousand year old eggs.

]]> By: rbh http://www.jejune.net/bits/2011/01/comeuppance-2/comment-page-1/#comment-5148 rbh Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:08:06 +0000 http://www.jejune.net/bits/?p=5204#comment-5148 Meat eaters have more culinary choices and flavors available. The moral dimension is interesting. You would expect a religious/moral justification. I guess ‘Man has dominion over the animals’ is it.

Far as I know, no one in the West ever tried karma as a justification for cruel treatment of animals. Karma is tricky because while it give balance for the good and evil in the world, it doesn’t enhance compassion: whatever ill fortune occurs because you deserve it. There fore animals deserve bad treatment and no compassion: they must have really screwed up to be reborn as a cow or pig. I think that works intellectually, but morally it repulses. I am just surprised no one has tried that tack.

Morals conveniently allow the convenient.

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