by SensitiveSoul
I wouldn't hurt pets, I wouldn't kill my friends and I would not molest anyone. Also I would not betray or lie to myself.
Most people, me including, do horrible things every day by buying and eating meat that has been animals pretty extremely abused, drink coffee or eat chocolate where child slave labor is common, buy items that are made in terrible sweat shops... and so on. This empaths do on a regular basis without thinking twice. They/we contribute to abusing the poor, children, animals and the planet itself. For some reason that is OK. As long as you don't do it with your own hands. A very peculiar view, I might say.
I'm not sure what is my conscience really, and what is just my inner moral values. There is a bit of a difference there.
This is such stupid bullshit. I don't get these animal rights protectors who refuse to eat meat because the bloody chickens didn't have a happy life. The chicken is already fucking dead, whether you eat it or not it still was pretty sad during its life. You might as well eat it. It's pointless to protest by not eating it, there's no way people all over the world would stop eating chicken because of sad chickens.
The consumers shouldn't be blamed for anything, we are meat eaters, our monkey ancestors were meat eaters, we eat meat. Want to blame someone, blame only the people who don't make the meat happy during its life.