Recently, i find it hard to easily eat any animal. I enjoy my food well and eat fish or meat last if i want, if not i return it to where i got it from.
Then a question pops up on my head on why we kill and eat animals at will.
The easiest answer is God permits it. That is, we are made to rule and dominate them. In fact, we offered them as sacrifices back then and those sacrifices were accepted.
No doubt, they are lesser animals while we are superior. Now the question that one could possibly ask is, what makes us superior and them lower/lesser animals?
The scholars are quick to mention rationality. They argue that our ability to think, reason and differentiate wrong from right makes us higher 'animals'.
We can't deny the fact that we, like animals, breath and also cared for our offsprings. To say these animals don't feel would be a wrong statement and indeed fallacious.
While they live just by existing , unlike man that focus on working, earning, gathering material wealths and the rest, they just live to survive daily.
My curiosity here is, would we still have the freedom or willingness to kill and eat these animals had God not permitted it? If it was not permitted that way and it was just a human rule that we should eat them, would you still eat them?
I am trying to understand if on another ground where we don't have such backing to justify our actions, would we still kill these animals for the fun of it or to eat it?
Would we even have the idea that an animal could be eaten since they are merely like us but inferior in many ways.
These and many questions pops up and worries my philosophical brain. Have you pondered in this direction?
Kindly share your opinion.
Thanks for your time. I am @smyle the philosopher.