• silasmariner@programming.dev
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      5 months ago

      I think the individual tragedy of every death that happens hitting you would be a tornado that ripped you from your sanity and sent your soaring. Some say that’s what happened to God. But we’re not gods, we’re small people with small lives, and it’s easy to connect the death of a dolphin by gunfire to the death of the world by overconsumption, even if only metaphorically. It’s a tragedy because of everything that it is, not because of the one cute dolphin. Although that is also sad.

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      5 months ago

      I believe emotion is the basis for morality, and there is no objective morality. I have little emotional reaction to an ant dying. I have some emotional reaction to a dolphin dying. I have a great emotional reaction to a human dying. Your emotional reactions to these things are different from mine. That’s where the conversation ends for me.

      I could make up an explanation like yours to explain why I feel this way, but the truth is that I just feel this way. I believe that’s also the real explanation for why you feel the way you do. I doubt you really logic and reasoned your way into caring for humans and animals equally.