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I knew you would ask 🙂
I don’t care how much money the rich have, I want to have enough to meet my needs. Then I want the opportunity to make more money so I can have some savings for the future. Then a bit more so I can have a few luxuries. Fanning the “the rich have too much” fire doesn’t impress me.
[quote=”DavidCMurray”]You may well be right, maravilla.
(Tastes like ashes in my mouth.)
[/quote]Hey, David, I even said “thanks Mara” How about that?
Gotta love topic drift.
As to ‘moral’, a lot of people confuse ‘ethics’ with ‘morality’. They aren’t the same.
Protecting the Earth for future generations is an ethical question, not a moral one. Being nice to animals, even the ones we eat, is an ethical choice, not a moral one.
Perhaps we should utter a prayer for the animal we kill and eat as our distant ancestors did? Or is saying ‘grace’ enough?
Anthropologists attribute an increase in brain size in our distant ancestors to a protein rich diet; a diet of animal flesh. We ‘got smarter’ because we ate meat.
As to our ‘moral obligation’, I would prefer animals that are going to be slaughtered for food not suffer unduly. But I don’t see that as a moral obligation. And off we go into another philosophical discussion as, to me, ‘moral obligations’ extend primarily to other humans. Lets not get that one started.
Mara, we aren’t talking about feelings, which are located in the Limbic System (sometimes called the ‘lizard brain’), a very old part of the brain. We are talking about cognitive function. Metacognition is, basically, ‘thinking about thinking’. Pondering your own thoughts, thinking about the process of how you think. Exclusive to homo sapiens.
