Breeding conscious animals would be a Darwinian moment for morality, argues thread
Sauers_ · x · 2026-11-02
A thought-provoking argument: asserting or engineering consciousness in animals would be a Copernican/Darwinian moment upending morality, the meat supply chain and agricultural civilization. The author's bottom line: only breed animals that are non-conscious and undeserving of rights — while admitting we don't know how to create a non-conscious mammal. Punchline: "we can not and must not domesticate cats."
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